confidential

Speech parts

1. confidential - Adjective

2. confidential - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.

Communicated in confidence; secret.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

secret private close personal inside privy incognito dern internal inner protected classified sensitive hidden exclusive
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Antonyms

national public published common known popular
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Related terms

confidence confide

Phrases with the word

confidential matter divulge confidential information confidential remark company's confidential information confidential knowledge strictly confidential information

Examples

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. Sun Tzu

We need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of good relationships between allies and protect personal, confidential data. François Hollande

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. Woodrow Wilson

The office of the lawyer, however poorly filled, is too delicate, personal and confidential to be occupied by a corporation. Robert H. Jackson

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. Louis Kronenberger

If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential. Traditional Proverb

Close letter words and terms

confident of confident person confidente confidential adviser-advisee relation confidential agent confidential business information