Thesaurus: confidential

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1. a. Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.
2. a. Communicated in confidence; secret.
3. adj. entrusted with private information and the confidence of another
4. adj. (of information) given in confidence or in secret
5. adj. denoting confidence or intimacy
6. adj. the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified
7. 1. Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk. 2. Communicated in confidence; secret. "Confidential messages." Burke. Confidential communication (Law) See Privileged communication, under Privileged. -- Confidential creditors, those whose claims are of such a character that they are entitled to be paid before other creditors. -- Confidential debts, debts incurred for borrowed money, and regarded as having a claim to be paid before other debts. McElrath.
8. j:100 s. entrusted with private information and the confidence of another s. (of information) given in confidence or in secret s. denoting confidence or intimacy s. the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified