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hubris

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːbɹɪs/
  • Canada, General-American: /ˈhjubɹɪs/
  • California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian: /ˈhjʉːbɹɪs/
  • Queensland Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • New-Zealand: /ˈhjʉːbɹəs/
  • CMU ARPABET: HH Y UW1 B R AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Excessive arrogance or pride, or presumption; originally (Greek mythology) toward the gods; a feeling of overwhelming and all-encompassing pride.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

overbearing pride or presumption

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness

History

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris, “insolence, sexual outrage”).

Across languages

Translations

70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: kryelartësi — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Arabic: غَطْرَسَة (ḡaṭrasa) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Bulgarian: високомерие (visokomerie) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Bulgarian: арогантност (arogantnost) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Catalan: arrogància — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Chinese Mandarin: 傲慢 (àomàn) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Chinese Mandarin: 狂妄 (kuángwàng) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Chinese Mandarin: 自恃 (zìshì) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Czech: namyšlenost — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Czech: arogance — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Danish: hybris — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Danish: overmod — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Dutch: hybris — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Dutch: hoogmoed — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Dutch: kapsones — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Esperanto: orgojlo — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Finnish: hybris — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Finnish: ylimielisyys — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Finnish: uho — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • French: hybris — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • French: hubris — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Galician: fachenda — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Galician: arrogancia — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Georgian: მედიდურობა (mediduroba) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Georgian: სიამაყე (siamaq̇e) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • German: Überheblichkeit — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • German: Hochmut — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • German: Hybris — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • German: Dünkel — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • German: Selbstüberschätzung — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐌴𐌹 (hauhhairtei) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Hungarian: gőg — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Hungarian: hübrisz — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Hungarian: önhittség — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Icelandic: hroki — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Icelandic: ofdramb — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Indonesian: keangkuhan — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Italian: insolenza — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Italian: arroganza — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Italian: supponenza — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Japanese: 傲慢 (gōman) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Japanese: 不遜 (fuson) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Korean: 거만 (geoman) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Northern Kurdish: quretî — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Northern Kurdish: pozbilindî — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Macedonian: на́дменост (nádmenost) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Macedonian: горде́ливост (gordélivost) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Polish: pycha — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Portuguese: húbris — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Romanian: hybris — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Russian: высокоме́рие (vysokomérije) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Serbo-Croatian: arogancija — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Serbo-Croatian: oholost — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Serbo-Croatian: gordost — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Serbo-Croatian: visokomerje — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Spanish: soberbia — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Spanish: desmesura — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Spanish: hibris — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Spanish: hybris — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Spanish: hubris — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Swedish: hybris — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Ukrainian: гібрис (hibrys) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Ukrainian: зарозумілість (zarozumilistʹ) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Ukrainian: високомірність (vysokomirnistʹ) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Ukrainian: високомірря (vysokomirrja) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Ukrainian: гординя (hordynja) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Ukrainian: ароганція (arohancija) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Ukrainian: арогантність (arohantnistʹ) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Ukrainian: зверхність (zverxnistʹ) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride
  • Ukrainian: гордість (hordistʹ) — excessive arrogance, presumption, or pride