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confiding

[ kuhn-fahy-ding ]

adjective

  1. trustful; credulous or unsuspicious:

    a confiding nature.



confiding

/ kənˈfaɪdɪŋ /

adjective

  1. unsuspicious; trustful
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • conˈfidingness, noun
  • conˈfidingly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • con·fiding·ly adverb
  • con·fiding·ness noun
  • noncon·fiding adjective
  • uncon·fiding adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of confiding1

First recorded in 1635–45; confide + -ing 2
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Example Sentences

Best recalls a grieving father confiding that a visit let him unlock the emotional door trapping his family in grief.

But if a fellow soldier or football player watches, that might be an opening to risk confiding, and forging a ‘safe’ friend.

In Steve, she plays Mary Magdalene Horowitz, an excitable loser who spends her days confiding in her only friend—a pet hamster.

He quoted Hernandez as confiding to relatives that he had “done a bad thing and killed a child in New York.”

Tough as it may be to conjure, even dentists report that their patients are confiding when their mouths are unencumbered.

Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

Confiding in the accustomed largess and kindness of your Majesty, we shall say no more.

Confiding these matters to his "Diary" and keeping his own opinion, Mr. Adams passed on to Philadelphia.

Mme. Vauquer gave her every attention, confiding all her own affairs to her.

It made him very unhappy and more chary in future of confiding his plans to his friends.

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