Confiding

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Confiding \Con*fid"ing\, a.
     That confides; trustful; unsuspicious. -- {Con*fid"ing*ly},
     adv. -- {Con*fid"ing*ness}, n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Confide \Con*fide"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Confided}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Confiding}.] [L. confidere; con- + fidere to trust.
     See {Faith}, and cf. {Affiance}.]
     To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually
     followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.
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           By thy command I rise or fall,
           In thy protection I confide.             --Byron.
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           Judge before friendships, then confide till death.
                                                    --Young.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  confiding
       adj : willing to entrust personal matters; "first she was
             suspicious, then she became confiding"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "confiding":
     artless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, candid, childlike,
     credulous, dependent, depending, direct, frank, guileless, ingenu,
     ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain,
     reliant, relying, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere,
     single-hearted, single-minded, trustful, trusting, trusty,
     unguarded, unreserved, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious,
     unwary, without suspicion