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[ adjective ] marked by excessive confidence

Examples

"an arrogant and cocksure materialist" "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen" "the less he knows the more positive he gets"

Used in print

(Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)

One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy , overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger .

Related terms

confident

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