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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Done or communicated in confidence; secret.
  2. adj. Entrusted with the confidence of another: a confidential secretary.
  3. adj. Denoting confidence or intimacy: a confidential tone of voice.
  4. adj. Containing information, the unauthorized disclosure of which poses a threat to national security.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Enjoying the confidence of another; intrusted with secrets or with private affairs: as, a confidential friend or clerk.
  2. Intended to be treated as private, or kept in confidence; spoken or written in confidence; secret.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. kept secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy.
  2. adj. Communicated in confidence; secret.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. entrusted with private information and the confidence of another
  2. adj. (of information) given in confidence or in secret
  3. adj. the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified
  4. adj. denoting confidence or intimacy

Etymologies

  1. From Latin confidentia +‎ -al. (Wiktionary)

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  • pikachu He was becoming confidential now, but I fancy my unresponsive attitude must have exasperated him at last, for he judged it necessary to inform me that he feared neither God nor devil, let alone any mere man.
    --Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Mar 8, 2011

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