confidential

• Qualifie une information destinée à rester secrète ou privée, ou qui doit être traitée avec discrétion.

Describes information that is intended to be kept secret or private.

1. B2formal

   Intended to be kept secret or private; not to be shared with others.

   Confidentiel, secret

   • The documents are marked as confidential.
   • She shared confidential information with her lawyer.
   • All patient records are strictly confidential.

   Synonymesclandestineclassifiedcoverthush-hushoff the recordprivateprivilegedrestrictedsecretsensitive

   Antonymesdisclosedknownopenpublic

2. Trusted with secretsB2formal

   Used to describe a person who is trusted with private or secret matters.

   Digne de confiance pour un secret

   • He is a confidential assistant to the CEO.
   • She works as a confidential secretary for the government.
   • The agent was a confidential informant for the police.

   Synonymesfaithfulloyalreliabletrustedtrustworthy