Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Completely sure; certain.
  • adjective Too sure; overconfident.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Perfectly secure or safe.
  • Confidently or absolutely sure or certain.
  • With perfect security or certainty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Perfectly safe.
  • adjective colloq. Quite certain.
  • adjective colloq. overconfident; -- of people.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective informal too confident; overconfident

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective marked by excessive confidence

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Examples

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  • This word makes me laugh cause I'm immature, haha

    August 2, 2008