"confidential" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌkɑːnfɪˈdɛnʃl/ Audio: en-us-confidential.ogg Forms: more confidential [comparative], most confidential [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin confidentia + -al. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰeydʰ-}}, {{uder|en|la|confidentia}} Latin confidentia, {{suffix|en||al}} + -al Head templates: {{en-adj}} confidential (comparative more confidential, superlative most confidential)
  1. Kept, or meant to be kept, secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly Synonyms: private, classified, off the record, privileged, secret, dern Translations (meant to be kept secret within a certain circle): سَرِّيّ (sarriyy) (Arabic), خُصُوصِيّ (ḵuṣūṣiyy) (Arabic), məxfi (Azerbaijani), канфідэнцыяльны (kanfidencyjalʹny) (Belarusian), тайны (tajny) (Belarusian), таемны (tajemny) (Belarusian), патаемны (patajemny) (Belarusian), та́ен (táen) (Bulgarian), повери́телен (poverítelen) (Bulgarian), confidencial (Catalan), 機密 (Chinese Mandarin), 机密 (jīmì) (Chinese Mandarin), 機要 (Chinese Mandarin), 机要 (jīyào) (Chinese Mandarin), důvěrný (Czech), vertrouwelijk (Dutch), luottamuksellinen (Finnish), salassa pidettävä (Finnish), confidentiel (French), confidencial (Galician), vertraulich (German), חסוי (khasui) (Hebrew), bizalmas (Hungarian), titkos (Hungarian), leynilegur (Icelandic), heimullegur (Icelandic), rúnda (Irish), confidenziale (Italian), riservato (Italian), 親展 (shinten) (alt: しんてん) (Japanese), matatapu (Maori), konfidensiell (Norwegian Bokmål), fortrolig (Norwegian Bokmål), konfidensiell (Norwegian Nynorsk), poufny (Polish), confidencial (Portuguese), secreto (Portuguese), confidențial (Romanian), конфиденциа́льный (konfidenciálʹnyj) (Russian), та́йный (tájnyj) (Russian), довери́тельный (doverítelʹnyj) (Russian), dìomhair (Scottish Gaelic), diùrraiseach (Scottish Gaelic), fo rùn (Scottish Gaelic), поверљив [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), poverljiv [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), povjerljiv [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), zaupen (Slovene), confidencial (Spanish), konfidentiell (Swedish), ลับเฉพาะ (láp chàpór) (Thai), ลับ (láp) (Thai), mahrem (Turkish), конфіденційний (konfidencijnyj) (Ukrainian), אויגאויפֿאויגיק (oygoyfoygik) (Yiddish)
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  2. (dated) Inclined to share confidences; (of things) making people inclined to share confidences; involving the sharing of confidences. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-confidential-en-adj-yI6K6RRr
  3. (dated) Having someone's confidence or trust; having a position requiring trust; worthy of being trusted with confidences. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-confidential-en-adj-hF6HDGLh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: confidential informant, confidentiality, confidentially Related terms: confide, confidence

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          "ref": "1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Book 6, Chapter 61, p. 355",
          "text": "[…] I have a communication of a very private—indeed, I will say, of a sacredly confidential nature, which I desire to make to you.",
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          "ref": "1960, Muriel Spark, chapter 10, in The Bachelors, Philadelphia: Lippincott, published 1961, page 163",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
          "word": "機密"
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        {
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          "roman": "jīmì",
          "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
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          "word": "salassa pidettävä"
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          "word": "親展"
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          "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
          "word": "secreto"
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      "word": "salassa pidettävä"
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      "word": "חסוי"
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      "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
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      "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
      "word": "rúnda"
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      "word": "riservato"
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      "word": "親展"
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      "code": "nb",
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    {
      "code": "gd",
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "poverljiv"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "povjerljiv"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
      "word": "zaupen"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
      "word": "confidencial"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
      "word": "konfidentiell"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "láp chàpór",
      "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
      "word": "ลับเฉพาะ"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "láp",
      "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
      "word": "ลับ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
      "word": "mahrem"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "konfidencijnyj",
      "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
      "word": "конфіденційний"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "oygoyfoygik",
      "sense": "meant to be kept secret within a certain circle",
      "word": "אויגאויפֿאויגיק"
    }
  ],
  "word": "confidential"
}

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