Definition of Confiding

1. Adjective. Willing to entrust personal matters. "First she was suspicious, then she became confiding"

Similar to: Trustful, Trusting

Definition of Confiding

1. a. That confides; trustful; unsuspicious.

Definition of Confiding

1. Verb. (present participle of confide) ¹

2. Adjective. In confidence; as if with trust. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Confiding

1. confide [v] - See also: confide

Lexicographical Neighbors of Confiding

confident(p)
confidente
confidentes
confidential
confidential adviser-advisee relation
confidential information
confidentialities
confidentiality
confidentially
confidentialness
confidently
confidentness
confider
confiders
confides
confiding
confidingly
confidingness
confidingnesses
config
configs
configurable
configurated
configuration
configuration section
configurational
configurationally
configurationism
configurations
configurative

Literary usage of Confiding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With Additional Table by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1888)
"The Wisdom of Confiding our Griefs to a Friend. We can none of us, not the wisest of us, brood over any source of affliction inwardly, keeping it back, ..."

2. The Works of John C. Calhoun by John Caldwell Calhoun, Richard Kenner Crallé (1851)
"... might result from confiding the power to SO small a body, the advice and consent of two ... confiding ..."

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