Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Excessively confident; presumptuous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Confident to excess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Confident to excess.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective too
confident . - adjective
presumptuous ,cocksure ,rude anddisrespectful .
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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"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."
Obama looks to youth vote for a late midterm surge Philip Ruckerand Anne E. Kornblut 2010
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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.
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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.
Frank Merriwell's Races Burt L. Standish 1905
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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.
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Even today, seven years later, the often "overconfident" reporting from Baghdad and Kabul sometimes takes your breath away.
Greg Mitchell: At 7th Anniversary of 'Photo Op': Mission Still NOT Accomplished 2010
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Even today, seven years later, the often "overconfident" reporting from Baghdad and Kabul sometimes takes your breath away.
Greg Mitchell: At 7th Anniversary of 'Photo Op': Mission Still NOT Accomplished 2010
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While the stupidity narrative asserts that "overconfident" bankers just didn't have clue what they were doing.
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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.
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While the stupidity narrative asserts that "overconfident" bankers just didn't have clue what they were doing.
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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 2009
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