Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
willing to entrust personal matters;
- Example: "first she was suspicious, then she became confiding"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Confiding \Con*fid"ing\, a.
That confides; trustful; unsuspicious. -- Con*fid"ing*ly,
adv. -- Con*fid"ing*ness, n.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Confide \Con*fide"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Confided; p. pr. &
vb. n. Confiding.] [L. confidere; con- + fidere to trust.
See Faith, and cf. Affiance.]
To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually
followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.
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By thy command I rise or fall,
In thy protection I confide. --Byron.
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Judge before friendships, then confide till death.
--Young.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
confiding
adj 1: willing to entrust personal matters; "first she was
suspicious, then she became confiding"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "confiding":
artless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, candid, childlike,
credulous, dependent, depending, direct, frank, guileless, ingenu,
ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain,
reliant, relying, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere,
single-hearted, single-minded, trustful, trusting, trusty,
unguarded, unreserved, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious,
unwary, without suspicion