Confident and Confidant
- (a)Confident means certain and confidant means close friend
- (b)Confidant means certain and confident means close friend
- (c)Confident means belief and confidant means an emissary
- (d)Confident means assurance and confidant means intimate person
Answer
A
Why
Correct — A, confident means certain and confidant means close friend. 'Confident' (adjective) means sure or self-assured; 'confidant' (noun) means a person you trust with private matters — a close friend. Option (a) defines both correctly.
Why the others are wrong
- (b)Confidant means certain and confident means close friend — Swaps the pair — it calls 'confidant' certain and 'confident' a close friend, the reverse of their meanings.
- (c)Confident means belief and confidant means an emissary — 'confident means belief' is loose, and 'confidant means an emissary' (a messenger) is wrong.
- (d)Confident means assurance and confidant means intimate person — 'confidant means intimate person' is close, but 'confident means assurance' names a noun, whereas 'confident' is an adjective meaning certain.
Concept
'Confident' is an adjective meaning certain or self-assured, while 'confidant' is a noun meaning a trusted friend — a classic confusable pair.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the correct pair.
- (a)Stationary means moving; stationery means paper goods
- (b)Stationary means not moving; stationery means writing materials
- (c)Stationary means writing materials; stationery means still
- (d)Stationary means a shop; stationery means fixed
Answer(b) stationary means not moving; stationery means writing materials.
- practice — not a real PYQ
'She confided in her ____' is best completed by —
- (a)confident
- (b)confidant
- (c)confidence
- (d)confidently
Answer(b) confidant — the noun for a trusted friend.