Antonyms for CONFIDENTIAL
ˌkɒn fɪˈdɛn ʃəlcon·fi·den·tial

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1. confidentialadjective

   Synonyms:
   dern

2. confidentialadjective

   (meant to be) kept secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly

   The newspaper claims a leaked confidential report by the government admits to problems with corrupt MPs.

   Synonyms:
   dern

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. confidential

   Antonyms:
   public, open, patent, official, treacherous, insidious

   Synonyms:
   private, secret, trustworthy, intimate

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. confidentialadjective

   entrusted with private information and the confidence of another

   "a confidential secretary"

   Antonyms:
   distant, public, unclassified, remote

   Synonyms:
   secret

2. confidential, secretadjective

   (of information) given in confidence or in secret

   "this arrangement must be kept confidential"; "their secret communications"

   Antonyms:
   unclassified, public, remote, distant

   Synonyms:
   underground, occult, private, surreptitious, orphic, undercover, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, mysterious, secret, hidden, privy, clandestine, secluded, cloak-and-dagger, mystic, unavowed, confidential, hole-and-corner(a), mystical

3. confidentialadjective

   denoting confidence or intimacy

   "a confidential approach"; "in confidential tone of voice"

   Antonyms:
   distant, remote, unclassified, public

   Synonyms:
   secret

4. confidentialadjective

   the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified

   Antonyms:
   remote, distant, unclassified, public

   Synonyms:
   secret

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shareable

   anything that can not be shared

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

How to use CONFIDENTIAL in a sentence?

1. State Department spokesman Mark Toner:

   As we go through the contents of these e-mails... we need to look at whether portions of them need to be upgraded in terms of classification, these were upgraded to confidential, so none of these documents were classified at the time they were sent.

2. Lawrence Reicher:

   The United States' paramount interest is preserving our confidential information.

3. William Barr:

   Many people seem to assume that the only intelligence collection that occurred was a single confidential informant and a FISA warrant, i'd like to find out whether that is, in fact, true. It strikes me as a fairly anemic effort if that was the counterintelligence effort designed to stop the threat as it's being represented.

4. Salihin Kondoker:

   I use Apple phones, so I want to keep my information confidential, keep my information private so it should not be accessed by anyone - not even law enforcement officers.

5. Debra Katz:

   What I can speak to is when victims of sexual assault and violence go to their Congress people -- when they go to their senators and they ask for their information to be confidential, I think that that's a request that needs to be respected.

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