Confidant vs. Confident

Confidantnoun

A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.

Confidant

One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend.

Confidantnoun

someone to whom private matters are confided

Confidant

The confidant ( or ; feminine: confidante, same pronunciation) is a character in a story whom a protagonist confides in and trusts. Confidants may be other principal characters, characters who command trust by virtue of their position such as doctors or other authority figures, or anonymous confidants with no separate role in the narrative.

Confidentadjective

very sure of something; positive

Confidentadjective

self-confident

Confidentnoun

obsolete form of confidant

Confidentnoun

See Confidant.

Confidentadjective

having or marked by confidence or assurance;

Confidentadjective

persuaded of; very sure;

Confidentadjective

not liable to error in judgment or action;