CONFIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confiding mean? 

• CONFIDING (adjective)
  The adjective CONFIDING has 1 sense:

1. willing to entrust personal matters

  Familiarity information: CONFIDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFIDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Willing to entrust personal matters

Context example:

first she was suspicious, then she became confiding

Similar:

trustful; trusting (inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust)

 Context examples 

Anxious to appear friendly and at her ease, she put out her hand with a confiding gesture, and said gratefully...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“So loving, so confiding, and so young! Can I ever forget?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As he went on his voice again grew soft, and a confiding note came into it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Her sentiments towards him were compounded of all that was respectful, grateful, confiding, and tender.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The next morning brought another short note from Marianne—still affectionate, open, artless, confiding—everything that could make MY conduct most hateful.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

There, indeed, lay real pleasure, for there she was giving up the sweetest hours of the twenty-four to his comfort; and feeling that, unmerited as might be the degree of his fond affection and confiding esteem, she could not, in her general conduct, be open to any severe reproach.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I do not know whether I ever before mentioned to you my feelings on this subject; but I will not leave the country without confiding them, and I trust you will not esteem them unreasonable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"Are you going to help about the fair, dear?" asked Mrs. Carrol, as Amy sat down beside her with the confiding air elderly people like so well in the young.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Or, if confiding anything to friends will be more likely to relieve you, you shall impart it to us, Mr. Micawber,” said Traddles, prudently.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If your abhorrence of me should make my assertions valueless, you cannot be prevented by the same cause from confiding in my cousin; and that there may be the possibility of consulting him, I shall endeavour to find some opportunity of putting this letter in your hands in the course of the morning.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)