overconfident
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈkɒnfɪdənt/
Adjective
overconfident (comparative more overconfident, superlative most overconfident)
- 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.
- Presumptuous, cocksure, rude and disrespectful.
Translations
too confident
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presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
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