confiding

[ kuhn-fahy-ding ]

adjective

1. trustful; credulous or unsuspicious:

   a confiding nature.

confiding

/ kənˈfaɪdɪŋ /

adjective

1. unsuspicious; trustful

Derived Forms

• conˈfidingness, noun
• conˈfidingly, adverb

Other Words From

• con·fiding·ly adverb
• con·fiding·ness noun
• noncon·fiding adjective
• uncon·fiding adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of confiding¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• affectionate
• ardent
• conscientious
• dependable
• devoted
• dutiful
• hard-core
• honest
• honorable
• loving
• obedient
• patriotic
• resolute
• scrupulous
• sincere
• staunch
• steadfast
• true
• trustworthy
• trusty