SELF-ASSURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-assured mean? 

• SELF-ASSURED (adjective)
  The adjective SELF-ASSURED has 1 sense:

1. showing poise and confidence in your own worth

  Familiarity information: SELF-ASSURED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-ASSURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing poise and confidence in your own worth

Synonyms:

self-assured; self-confident

Context example:

hardly more than a boy but firm-knit and self-confident

Similar:

confident (having or marked by confidence or assurance)

 Context examples 

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch to nothing more than a short decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could, with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject by a question which had been long uppermost in her thoughts; it was, Have you ever read Udolpho, Mr. Thorpe?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)