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- pronunciation:
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fih
den
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
told or communicated only in privacy; secret.
She keeps her confidential correspondence locked in her desk drawer.The information contained in this letter is confidential.
- synonyms:
- private, secret
- similar words:
- hush-hush, intimate, off the record, off-the-record, sensitive, top-secret
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| definition 2: |
denoting secrecy or confidence.
The two colleagues exchanged confidential looks at the meeting.- similar words:
- intimate, private, secret, sly
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| definition 3: |
having the task of keeping another's affairs private.
He's the senior manager's confidential secretary.- similar words:
- bosom, personal, private, trusted, trustworthy, trusty
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| related words: |
clandestine, invisible, undercover |
adverb + (adj.)confidential
highly, illegally, legally, normally, strictly, supposedly
(adj.)confidential
+ noun
adoption,
advice,
adviser,
advisor,
allegation,
assistant,
assurance,
audit,
basis,
chat,
clerk,
client,
communication,
confidentiality,
conversation,
counseling,
counselor,
customer,
data,
disclosure,
discussion,
document,
draft,
employee,
enforcement,
file,
filing,
guide,
informant,
information,
interview,
investigation,
journalist,
letter,
list,
making,
material,
matter,
mediation,
meeting,
memento,
memo,
memorandum,
negotiation,
neighbor,
permission,
personnel,
practitioner,
pregnancy,
proceeding,
proposal,
questionnaire,
record,
report,
reporting,
screening,
session,
settlement,
source,
testimony,
testing,
tobacco,
tone,
vol,
warning,
whisper
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| derivations: |
confidentially (adv.), confidentiality (n.) |
The word confidential
contains the following part:
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
  More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, agricultural, ancestral, annual, arboreal, artificial, astral, bacterial, biblical, biographical, brutal, capital, central, ceremonial, chemical, classical, clinical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continental, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, fluvial, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, guttural, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, ineffectual, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, pastoral, personal, philosophical, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, political, potential, quizzical, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, sacrificial, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, territorial, theatrical, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, veridical, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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