lacking confidence

lacking confidence
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Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006

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  • confidence — con‧fi‧dence [ˈkɒnfdns ǁ ˈkɑːn ] noun [uncountable] 1. the feeling that you can trust someone or something to do what they say, work properly etc: • We have every confidence in the team. • Our top priority is to maintain customer confidence in… …   Financial and business terms

  • lacking self-confidence — index diffident Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • confidence — noun 1 belief in others ADJECTIVE ▪ absolute, complete, full, total ▪ The company needs the full confidence of its investors. ▪ great, high …   Collocations dictionary

  • confidence — con|fi|dence W2S2 [ˈkɔnfıdəns US ˈka:n ] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(feeling somebody/something is good)¦ 2¦(belief in yourself)¦ 3¦(feeling something is true)¦ 4 gain/win/earn somebody s confidence 5¦(keep information secret)¦ 6 take somebody into your… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • confidence — noun 1 FEELING SB/STH IS GOOD (U) the feeling that you can trust someone or something to be good, work well, or produce good results (+ in): Our first priority is to maintain the customer s confidence in our product. | have confidence in: We have …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • confidence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. assurance, certainty, positiveness; spirit, boldness, self reliance; communication; privacy, secret; faith, trust. See belief, courage, hope. Ant.,doubt, uncertainty. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Faith] …   English dictionary for students

  • lacking — lack|ing [ˈlækıŋ] adj [not before noun] 1.) not having enough of something or any of it lacking in ▪ He was lacking in confidence . ▪ She seems to be entirely lacking in intelligence. ▪ The new designs have all been found lacking in some… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • lacking — [[t]l akɪŋ[/t]] ADJ GRADED: v link ADJ, usu ADJ in n If something or someone is lacking in a particular quality, they do not have any of it or enough of it. → See also lack ...if your hair is lacking in lustre and feeling dry... She felt nervous …   English dictionary

  • List of confidence tricks — This list of confidence tricks and scams should not be considered complete, but covers the most common examples. Confidence tricks and scams are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type.… …   Wikipedia

  • self-confidence — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ enormous, great, supreme ▪ growing, increased ▪ new, renewed ▪ national …   Collocations dictionary

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