CONFIDENT  自信

TRUST SELF:oneself.
SELF-ASSUREDASSUREDSELF-CONFIDENTPOSITIVEASSERTIVESELF-POSSESSEDSELF-RELIANTPOISEDCOOLHEADEDPHLEGMATICLEVELHEADEDUNPERTURBEDIMPERTURBABLEUNRUFFLEDAT EASETOGETHERCAN-DO
Hypernym
  • TRUSTBELIEVE someone to be HONEST, AND TREAT that person CONFORMING TO THAT BELIEF.
    • BELIEVEATTITUDE IN-RELATION-TO a THINK:thought to the effect that this THOUGHT is TRUE.
      • ATTITUDERELATION between a HUMAN who FEELS and PERCEIVED OBJECTS involving a TENDENDY to REACT.
        • RELATIONFEATURE of TWO OR MORE THINGS TOGETHER....
Modern Chinese Criteria
自信

有自信

拿手

自許

自信不疑

充滿信心

滿懷信心

信心

信念

自信心

上進心 refers a confident desire for progress.

進取心 refers to a confident desire for success. And these two words are marginal to the group.

first rough draft to identify synonym group members for future analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH

  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 47B

  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 49B

Words

張  zhāng OC: krlaŋ MC: ʈi̯ɐŋ 2 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • viFEEL EXTENDED/EXPANSIVE> feel confident
  • vtoNcausativeCAUSE TO FEEL CONFIDENT> increase (someone's) confidence

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: