overconfident

overconfident

English

Etymology

over- +‎ confident

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈkɒnfɪdənt/

Adjective

overconfident (comparative more overconfident, superlative most overconfident)

1. Too confident.
   • 2020 April 9, Gaby Hinsliff, “We used to moan about normal life, now our fear is we'll never get it back”, in The Guardian‎:

     The downturn triggered by putting everyday life on hold to halt the infection should, we were told, be V-shaped: a shock, but one from which we’d soon bounce back. Like many comforting predictions in the early days of this pandemic, that is beginning to look alarmingly over-confident.

2. Presumptuous, cocksure, rude and disrespectful.

Translations

too confident

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: tro memfida, tro memcerta, tro certa Finnish: itsevarma (fi), liian itsevarma French: outrecuidant (fr), présomptueux (fr) German: stolz (de), überheblich (de), vermessen (de), anmaßend (de) Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍃𐌺𐍃 (untilamalsks) Latin: praefīdens Maori: whakatoatoa Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: övermodig (sv)

presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: overmoedig (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: itsevarma (fi) French: arrogant (fr), présomptueux (fr), condescendant (fr), sec (fr) German: anmaßend (de), überheblich (de), vermessen (de), dreist (de), unbescheiden, arrogant (de), unhöflich (de), respektlos (de), verächtlich (de), unverschämt (de) Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: tvärsäker (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can

See also

• insolent, conceited, foolhardy, cocky