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English
Etymology
From in- + confident.
Adjective
inconfident (comparative more inconfident, superlative most inconfident)
- (rare) unconfident; lacking confidence
1914, American Psychological Association, Psychological monographs, volume 17, page 50:This is in perfect accord with our finding that the confident judgment of a given subject is more liable to be correct than an inconfident one by the same subject.
Translations
lacking in confidence, unsure of oneself