Antonyms for confidential
ˌkɒn fɪˈdɛn ʃəlcon·fi·den·tial

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1. confidentialadjective

   Synonyms:
   dern

2. confidentialadjective

   (meant to be) kept secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly

   The newspaper claims a leaked confidential report by the government admits to problems with corrupt MPs.

   Synonyms:
   dern

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. confidential

   Antonyms:
   public, open, patent, official, treacherous, insidious

   Synonyms:
   private, secret, trustworthy, intimate

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. confidentialadjective

   entrusted with private information and the confidence of another

   "a confidential secretary"

   Antonyms:
   distant, public, unclassified, remote

   Synonyms:
   secret

2. confidential, secretadjective

   (of information) given in confidence or in secret

   "this arrangement must be kept confidential"; "their secret communications"

   Antonyms:
   unclassified, public, remote, distant

   Synonyms:
   underground, occult, private, surreptitious, orphic, undercover, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, mysterious, secret, hidden, privy, clandestine, secluded, cloak-and-dagger, mystic, unavowed, hole-and-corner(a), mystical

3. confidentialadjective

   denoting confidence or intimacy

   "a confidential approach"; "in confidential tone of voice"

   Antonyms:
   distant, remote, unclassified, public

   Synonyms:
   secret

4. confidentialadjective

   the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified

   Antonyms:
   remote, distant, unclassified, public

   Synonyms:
   secret

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shareable

   anything that can not be shared

   Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

How to use confidential in a sentence?

1. Stephen Nigro:

   You can imagine a situation where your BMW is customized. I don’t know exactly what they’re doing, because it’s very confidential, but certain components in the car could be designed just for you.

2. Corey Price:

   Here at Pornhub, with more than 70 million daily visitors, we wanted to continue our concerted effort to maximize the privacy of our users, ensuring that what they do on our platform remains strictly confidential, with the switch to [Hypertext Transfer Protocol Service] we are able to protect their identity as well as safeguard them against exposure to malware by third parties.

3. Mark Turnage:

   OWL is the early warning system for the darknet — we watch what is happening 24/7, and can alert companies and consumers to the presence of their data, IP, goods, and confidential information being online—often before it is exploited before the bad guys, we believe OWL's database of darknet content is the largest in the world outside the federal government.

4. State Department spokesman Mark Toner:

   These were upgraded to confidential, so none of these documents were classified at the time they were sent.

5. Mark Warner:

   If this kind of discussion is going to take place, we have a process — it's called the Gang of Eight, my hope is that any such briefing needs to bipartisan, and my hope and prayer is that the FBI or the Department of Justice would not in any way be forced to reveal confidential information that would go against 75 years of practice.

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