self-confident
Adam had a defiance and self-confidence that were very appealing.
It's been proven that dance helps boost self-confidence and make people happy.
He was swiftly losing his self-confidence.
She has developed a snappy style and a healthy self-confidence in her professional skills.
I had no self-confidence at all. I didn't like the way I looked.
Her 13-year-old son has built self-confidence since leaving a nearby neighborhood school two years ago.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Confidence & self-assurance
amour propre
aplomb
assertive
assertively
assertiveness
dogmatism
dogmatist
empowered
feel certain
fierce
rest assured
safe
safety blanket
security blanket
self-assertion
to be sureidiom
too cool for schoolidiom
unbowed
unintimidated
unmoored

Examples of self-confidence

self-confidence
Like internal efficacy, this orientation concerns one's self-confidence in a political environment, but it does so with a much higher degree of specificity.
The students' self-confidence was improved, and they gained valuable knowledge of university life.
Most important of all for the gathering political crisis was the rate of growth, and the obvious self-confidence of the movement.
Such a rationalism was indicative of an underlying self-confidence, a sense that a liberal order was there for the making, by mature political reflection.
It gave him a fatal self-confidence that he could manipulate parliament whatever the circumstances.
Perhaps most fundamentally, it helps develop self-confidence and determination in local people and communities - the real drivers of regeneration in the long run.
Second, the possession of private property develops the individual's personality as a 'social being' (strengthening self-confidence).
A sense of one's worth and dignity and the self-confidence which goes with it are indispensable ingredients of democratic politics.
He writes to a society that distinguishes itself sharply from the pagan world with no little degree of self-confidence.
Female students scored higher than male students on self-confidence and productive changes.
Factors behind this were his personal magnetism, self-confidence and diligence, his father's reputation and his own part in the 1956 revolution.
He loved adventure and to test his powers; he had great self-confidence.
This can result not only in low academic achievement but also in low self-confidence and motivation, and little understanding of higher education opportunities.
Self-confidence of 2: has full self-confidence in him 0 herself for this task.
Slightly more than one-fifth (22.8 per cent) of the respondents with incontinence claimed that their self-confidence was negatively affected.
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