a. | 1. | Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; | |||||||||
2. | Communicated in confidence; secret.
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Adj. | 1. | confidential - entrusted with private information and the confidence of another; "a confidential secretary" |
2. | confidential - (of information) given in confidence or in secret; "closet information"; "this arrangement must be kept confidential"; "their secret communications" | |
3. | confidential - denoting confidence or intimacy; "a confidential approach"; "in confidential tone of voice" | |
4. | confidential - the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified |