Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb confide

2 senses of confide

Sense 1
confide -- (reveal in private; tell confidentially)
       => unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out -- (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case")

Sense 2
entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commit -- (confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God")
       => pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give -- (place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers")

Antonyms of adj confiding

1 sense of confiding

Sense 1
confiding -- (willing to entrust personal matters; "first she was suspicious, then she became confiding")

INDIRECT (VIA trustful) -> distrustful -- (having or showing distrust; "a man of distrustful nature"; "my experience...in other fields of law has made me distrustful of rules of thumb generally"- B.N.Cardozo; "vigilant and distrustful superintendence"- Thomas Jefferson)

Similarity of adj confiding

1 sense of confiding

Sense 1
confiding -- (willing to entrust personal matters; "first she was suspicious, then she became confiding")
       => trustful (vs. distrustful), trusting -- (inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall)