Antonyms for self-confidentself-con·fi·dent

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1. self-confidentadjective

   Antonyms:
   insecure

2. self-confidentadjective

   Antonyms:
   insecure

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1. self-assured, self-confidentadjective

   showing poise and confidence in your own worth

   "hardly more than a boy but firm-knit and self-confident"

   Antonyms:
   shy, unsure, diffident, timid

   Synonyms:
   self-assured

How to use self-confident in a sentence?

1. Robert Anson Heinlein:

   A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

2. Eric Hoffer:

   The real haves are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real have nots are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

3. Eamonn McCann:

   Martin McGuinness was always one of the lads, and at the same time Martin McGuinness stood out as being more articulate than most, more self-confident, obviously the pleasant exterior of Martin McGuinness is not all that there is to him.

4. Alina Guyon:

   There's a moral compass that comes with being a Girl Scout, it teaches a girl to be self-confident and take care of herself, and it gives her a good group of friends.

5. Cat Ellington:

   I'm not narcissistic or arrogant, I'm just terribly self-confident.

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