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In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Hillary Clinton

Meaning of "confidential" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONFIDENTIAL

confidential  [ˌkɒnfɪˈdɛnʃəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONFIDENTIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Confidential is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CONFIDENTIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Confidentiality

Confidentiality is a set of rules or a promise that limits access or places restrictions on certain types of information.

Definition of confidential in the English dictionary

The first definition of confidential in the dictionary is spoken, written, or given in confidence; secret; private. Other definition of confidential is entrusted with another's confidence or secret affairs. Confidential is also suggestive of or denoting intimacy.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONFIDENTIAL


cadential
kəˈdɛnʃəl
consequential
ˌkɒnsɪˈkwɛnʃəl
coresidential
ˌkəʊrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl
credential
krɪˈdɛnʃəl
differential
ˌdɪfəˈrɛnʃəl
essential
ɪˈsɛnʃəl
evidential
ˌɛvɪˈdɛnʃəl
experiential
ɪkˌspɪərɪˈɛnʃəl
exponential
ˌɛkspəʊˈnɛnʃəl
influential
ˌɪnflʊˈɛnʃəl
nonconfidential
ˌnɒnˌkɒnfɪˈdɛnʃəl
nonresidential
ˌnɒnrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl
potential
pəˈtɛnʃəl
precedential
ˌprɛsɪˈdɛnʃəl
providential
ˌprɒvɪˈdɛnʃəl
prudential
pruːˈdɛnʃəl
residential
ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl
sequential
sɪˈkwɛnʃəl
tendential
tɛnˈdɛnʃəl
vice-presidential
ˌvaɪsprɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONFIDENTIAL

confidante
confide
confidence
confidence game
confidence interval
confidence level
confidence man
confidence trick
confidence trickster
confidence vote
confidency
confident
confidentiality
confidentially
confidentialness
confidently
confider
confiding
confidingly
confidingness

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONFIDENTIAL

action potential
chemical potential
circumferential
circumstantial
equipotential
existential
growth potential
inconsequential
inferential
initial
jurisprudential
penitential
presidential
quintessential
referential
reverential
self-referential
substantial
tangential
torrential
unsubstantial

Synonyms and antonyms of confidential in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CONFIDENTIAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «confidential» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of confidential

Translation of «confidential» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONFIDENTIAL

Find out the translation of confidential to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of confidential from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «confidential» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

机密的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

confidencial
570 millions of speakers

English

confidential
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गोपनीय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سِرّيّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

конфиденциальный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

confidencial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গোপনীয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

confidentiel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

sulit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

vertraulich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

内密の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

기밀의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rahasia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bí mật
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ரகசிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोपनीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gizli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

riservato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

poufny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

конфіденційний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

confidențial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εμπιστευτικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vertroulik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

konfidentiell
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fortrolig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of confidential

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFIDENTIAL»

The term «confidential» is very widely used and occupies the 10.470 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONFIDENTIAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «confidential» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «confidential» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about confidential

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10 QUOTES WITH «CONFIDENTIAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word confidential.
1
Lowell Bergman
Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there's sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in Washington, in particular where people will actually - when you call them up on the phone, they'll say, 'This is off the record,' or, 'This is on background,' or they don't even wait for you to say anything.
2
Hillary Clinton
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
3
Candy Crowley
Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.
4
Stockwell Day
I do not deal in any confidential information. What I do is provide advice.
5
Robert Fisk
The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.
6
Barton Gellman
Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
7
Barton Gellman
One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails.
8
Louis Kronenberger
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
9
Louis Stokes
There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.
10
Thomas Szasz
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONFIDENTIAL»

Discover the use of confidential in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to confidential and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Kitchen Confidential
After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all.
Anthony Bourdain, 2010
2
Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the ...
Chronicles the best and the worst of Apple Computer's remarkable story.
Owen W. Linzmayer, 2004
3
Rosewood Confidential: The Unofficial Companion to Pretty ...
This is the first companion volume to the dark deeds, ugly secrets and flashy fashions to the popular TV show Pretty Little Liars, which is currently playing on MTV in the UK. The winner of six Teen Choice awards, the show is a fan ...
Liv Spencer, 2012
4
Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later
Now with this striking new adult novel from author and creator Francine Pascal, millions of devoted fans can finally return to the idyllic Sweet Valley, home of the phenomenally successful book series and franchise.
Francine Pascal, 2011
5
High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student
Going way beyond the usual clichés of jock and nerd, the book introduces readers to a revolving cast of fascinating characters from every walk of social life: promiscuous freshmen girls, lunchtime alcoholics, evangelical Christians, ...
Jeremy Iversen, 2006
6
Cockpit Confidential
Presents an introduction to air travel, covering such topics as safety measures on modern planes, the mechanics of takeoffs and landings, the effects of lightning, bird strikes, and ice-build-up, and the reasons for delays, overbookings, ...
Patrick Smith, 2013
7
Film School Confidential: An Insider's Guide to Film Schools
A revised reference profiles the nation's top twenty film schools for such areas as curriculum, reputation, and graduate employment options, in a guide that provides objective information as well as interview excerpts from students and ...
Tom Edgar, Karin Kelly, 2007
8
Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want ...
Cynthia Shapiro is a former Human Resources executive who's pulling back the curtain on the way that companies really work.
Cynthia Shapiro, 2005
9
Med School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Medical ...
Med School Confidential uses the same chronological format and mentor-based system that have made Law School Confidential and Business School Confidential such treasured and popular guides.
Robert H. Miller, Dan Bissell, M.D., 2007
10
Cast Member Confidential: A Disneyfied Memoir
Mitchell shares the behind-the-scenes story of his year in the Mouse's army.
Chris Mitchell, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONFIDENTIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term confidential is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Tour Confidential: Did Tiger Woods Make Progress at The Greenbrier?
Our panel debates whether a Rory-less St. Andrews would diminish the British Open, if Jordan Spieth is now the odds-on favorite, and whether ... «Golf.com, Jul 15»
2
Party financing bill distinguishes between anonymous, 'confidential
The proposed party financing bill sets out a difference between anonymous donations, confidential donations and donations whose source is ... «Malta Independent Online, Jul 15»
3
Busuttil can't ignore Fenech's access to confidential info fr...
The unit in question is entrusted with confidential information,” Labour said. The emails published in l-Orizzont shows that Fenech asked Zahra ... «MaltaToday, Jul 15»
4
Delhi confidential: Star Power
Star Power. Doordarshan is all set to induct some star power into its popular women's empowerment show, “Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon”. «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
5
Comic-Confidential: San Diego Comic-Con International Survival …
Comic-Confidential: San Diego Comic-Con International Survival Guide. Fanboys and fangirls all over the country will land in San Diego full of ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»
6
Five Point Holdings Announces Confidential Submission of Draft …
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., July 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Five Point Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") announced today that it has confidentially submitted a draft ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
7
An Open Letter to John Green: Steven Gerrard's Story Continues
LAG Confidential, a LA Galaxy community. Home · Fanposts .... More from LAG Confidential. Latest on the ... LAG Confidential · FanPosts ... «LAG Confidential, Jul 15»
8
Trackwork Confidential
The 44-year-old has been out of action since February. Originally published as Trackwork Confidential Comments. facebook. twitter. linkedin. «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
9
Trackwork Confidential: Melbourne
Trackwork Confidential: Melbourne. by: Michael Manley, Danny Russell; From: Herald Sun; July 07, 2015 10:47AM. Increase Text Size · Decrease Text Size ... «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
10
Confidential prison helpline launched to combat illegal trafficking of …
The Irish Prison Service has launched a free confidential phone line to combat the illegal trafficking of drugs and weapons into prisons. «Irish Independent, Jul 15»

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