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Meaning of OVERCONFIDENT

Pronunciation:  'owvur'kânfidunt

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"; "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more positive he gets"
 
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 Synonyms: cocksure, confident, positive
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\O"ver*con"fi*dent\, a.
Confident to excess. -- {O"ver*con"fi*dent*ly}, adv.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: arrogant, assured, audacious, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, cocksure, cocky, confident, convinced, decided, determined, foolhardy, hasty, heedless, hubristic, improvident, imprudent, impudent, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insolent, overbearing, overbold, overcareless, oversure, overweening, persuaded, poised, pompous, positive, presuming, proud, pushful, pushy, rash, reassured, secure, self-assertive, self-assured, self-confident, self-important, self-reliant, short-sighted, sure, swaggering, temerarious, thoughtless, unafraid, unchary, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating, unwary, unwavering, uppity, vainglorious
 

 

 

 

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