Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Excessively confident; presumptuous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Confident to excess.
Wiktionary
- adj. too confident.
- adj. presumptuous, cocksure, rude and disrespectful.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Confident to excess.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by excessive confidence
Examples
“What they've done by foolishly acting so arrogant and overconfident is that they've basically put out the warning signal, and I am finding that people are very ready to overcome this.”
The Washington Post: Obama looks to youth vote for a late midterm surge
“A fighter in the ring that does not have a game plan, especially when he enters fat, flabby, and overconfident, is going to get his clock fucking cleaned - every goddamn time.”
“He had confidence in himself, which any one must have to be successful, but still he was not overconfident, which is a fault quite as much as timidity.”
“In Tuesday's statements, Zijin said it was "overconfident" and paid insufficient attention to the possibility of a crisis in the course of its rapid expansion.”
The Wall Street Journal: Regulator Probes Zijin For Breach of Disclosure Rules
“Even today, seven years later, the often "overconfident" reporting from Baghdad and Kabul sometimes takes your breath away.”
The Huffington Post: Greg Mitchell: At 7th Anniversary of 'Photo Op': Mission Still NOT Accomplished
“While the stupidity narrative asserts that "overconfident" bankers just didn't have clue what they were doing.”
“This might mean she's preposterously overconfident, but after the sort of campaign she's run against Obama, I think "overconfident" is one of those unflattering adjectives we can apply fairly to Senator Clinton.”
“Coach Claude Julien called the Caps "overconfident" based on the head-to-head records of the two teams.”
Washington Redskins, Washington Capitals, and NFL Draft Articles
“Rice complained about the Defense Department's "overconfident" briefings during the tenure of Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.”
“The newspaper said Woodward also wrote about ongoing tension within the over the quality and credibility of information about the progress of the complained about the Defense Department "overconfident" briefings during the tenure of then”
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above; upper; superior; eminent
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courteous, sincere, confident, subordination, non-discriminary, knowledgeable, persuasive, inclined, overconfident, arrogant, presumptuous, goodwill and 29 more...
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