What is the meaning of confidential?

adjective

  • Entrusted with private information and the confidence of another.
    • usage: "a confidential secretary"
  • Of information. ( given in confidence or in secret)
    • usage: "this arrangement must be kept confidential"; "their secret communications"
  • Denoting confidence or intimacy.
    • usage: "a confidential approach"; "in confidential tone of voice"
  • The level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified. .
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APAWordNet. (2010). confidential. Retrieved September 22, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/confidential/definitions/1171194
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