selfsecure

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Secure in oneself; self-assured; self-confident.
    — Friendliness and gentleness also apply to self. Children who learn to be gentle and tolerant with themselves grow up to be less stressed and more relaxed and selfsecure.
  2. Secure on one's own; self-reliant; self-sustaining.
    — Haynes's formulation all but conflated middle-class status with moral integrity, as he implied that by their nature, the better classes were more selfsecure.

词形变化

more selfsecure comparative most selfsecure superlative self-secure alternative

词源

From self- + secure, probably a calque of German selbstsicher (“selfsecure, self-assured, self-confident”). Compare also Dutch zelfzeker, zelfverzekerd (“selfsecure, confident”).
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