Confided

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /kənˈfaɪdɪd/

Definitions

1. Revealed a secret or personal information to someone trusted
2. Trusted another person by disclosing confidential or private thoughts
3. Communicated private feelings or secrets in a trusting manner

Etymology: The verb "confide" entered English in the early 1600s, borrowed through Middle Scots, where it meant "to put trust in." Its Latin ancestor, "confidere," was built from "con-," meaning "together," and "fidere," meaning "to trust," so the core idea is one of placing your trust in someone. That same Latin root sits behind "faith" and "fidelity," which reached English by a different route, making them doublets of "confide." "Confided" is simply the past tense and past participle of "confide." The sense of telling a secret grew out of the older meaning: to confide in someone was to entrust them with your inner thoughts, and the secret was the thing you handed over in that act of trust.

Synonyms: trusted, entrusted, revealed, disclosed, shared

Antonyms: withheld, concealed, hidden, kept, suppressed