Confiding

Quick meaning: Confiding is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of confide.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of confide.

More Meanings

1. Having or showing confidence or trust in another person.
2. In confidence; as if with trust.
3. (birdwatching) Of a bird, allowing the close approach of humans.
4. The telling of something in confidence.

Example Sentences

Those eyes especially struck Eugene, and when he thought of Liza he always saw those clear, mild, confiding eyes.

Not having a confiding relationship with one's husband was, however, associated with elevated risk for symptoms of anxiety.

Juliet raised her eyes with confiding tenderness ; there was no interrogation in their glance, yet Montague wished to speak ; his heart was too full for words.

Effingham was by nature indolent, confiding, and, at times, impetuous and indiscreet; but Marmaduke was uniformly equable, penetrating, and full of activity and enterprise.

Word Forms

• confidings

Synonyms for confiding

Depending on context, synonyms include trustful, trusting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trusting, trustful, trust, promising, reassuring, compassionate.

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