Preposition: of

• victory: Going into the epee Cambridge were 11 hits down, but still confident of victory despite the large Oxford crowd that had gathered.

• success: We are now really looking forward to our terminal exam and are very confident of success.

• outcome: However, we are confident of a satisfactory outcome for the new financial year.

Modifying Another Word

• quietly: I'm quietly confident that things will get better.

• supremely: This probably surprised the Central players who had been supremely confident of winning.

• reasonably: Not a course for beginners, but the reasonably confident golfer will appreciate his skill in creating a hard but fair 18 holes.

• fairly: Jack is a fairly confident Web user who has developed a feel for how long to allow for information gathering.

• sufficiently: I feel sufficiently confident in British capability to believe we have something important to offer.

Infinitive complement

• forget: At all times be confident never to forget it.

Modifies a noun

• communicator: Extra curricular is all about debating skills to help your children become confident communicators.

• mood: RWJ Honda's Erik Eggen's also heads to Northern Ireland on Saturday in a confident mood.

• believer: Confident Believer - I have little doubt I have found the right path Hobbies I like meeting new people who share the same interests.

• assertion: The article contains the usual confident assertions of pre-eminence without much evidence to back them up.

• manner: You must be outgoing and have a confident manner with plenty of personality.

• swimmer: It contains floats that can be removed as and when the wearer becomes a more confident swimmer.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: I feel much more confident about using the Net now.

• remain: The Board remains confident of Stream's longer term prospects.

• seem: Well the author and publisher seem so confident they have gone to great lengths to let you try for yourself with absolutely no risk.

• appear: Remember most employers like: people who listen people who answer questions with examples people who come prepared people who appear confident.

• become: They were now becoming more confident in playing whenever I was present in the room.