- con|fessed
- con|fessed «kuhn FEHST», adjective.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
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self´-con|fessed´ly — self con|fessed «SEHLF kuhn FEHST», adjective. confessed by oneself; self admitted: »a self confessed failure, a self confessed baseball fan. –self´ con|fessed´ly, adverb … Useful english dictionary
self-con|fessed — «SEHLF kuhn FEHST», adjective. confessed by oneself; self admitted: »a self confessed failure, a self confessed baseball fan. –self´ con|fessed´ly, adverb … Useful english dictionary
ˌself-conˈfessed — adj admitting to being a particular bad type of person … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
self-con·fessed — /ˌsɛlfkənˈfɛst/ adj, always used before a noun : freely and openly admitting that you are a particular type of person a self confessed forger a self confessed television addict … Useful english dictionary
confessed — con|fessed [kənˈfest] adj [only before noun] having admitted publicly that you have done something ▪ a confessed criminal →↑self confessed … Dictionary of contemporary English
confessed — con|fessed [ kən fest ] adjective only before noun admitting that you have done something or that you are a particular type of person: a confessed workaholic/romantic/murderer/thief … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Hintze, Otto — (1861 1940) historian; helped maintain the Rankean tra dition that emphasized the state as the focus of historical analysis. Born to a Prussian civil servant in the Pomeranian village of Pyritz (now Pyrzyce), he began studying philosophy and… … Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik
self-confessed — self con fessed adj [only before noun] admitting that you have a particular quality, especially one that is bad ▪ a self confessed drug addict … Dictionary of contemporary English
self-confessed — self con fessed adjective admitting to being a particular bad type of person or to having a particular negative quality: a self confessed liar … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
unconfessed — un con•fessed′ adj … From formal English to slang
