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hubristic

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • h(y)o͞o'-brĭsʹ-tĭk
  • Received-Pronunciation: /h(j)uːˈbɹɪstɪk/
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  • General-American: /h(j)uˈbɹɪstɪk/
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  • rhymes with -ɪstɪk

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adj

Meaning 1

Of or relating to hubris (“excessive arrogance or pride, or presumption”); hence, overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hubrid, hubristical, airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed, blustery, boastful, lordly, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, glorious, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high-handed, high-hat, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, orgulous, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain

Antonyms: unhubristic, abased, demure, diffident, humble, humble-hearted, low, lowly, meek, mild, modest, poor, resigned, self-effacing, unpretentious, verecund

History

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ῠ̔βρῐστῐκός (hŭbrĭstĭkós, “given to wantonness, insolent, outrageous”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or relating to’). Ῠ̔βρῐστῐκός (Hŭbrĭstĭkós) is derived from ὑβρίζω (hubrízō, “to be wanton, run riot; to affront, insult”) (from ῠ̔́βρις (hŭ́bris, “insolence; pride”) (possibly from Pre-Greek) + -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō, suffix forming similative verbs)) + -τῐκός (-tĭkós, suffix forming adjectives). By surface analysis, hubris + -tic (suffix forming adjectives).

Across languages

Translations

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Finnish: hybristinen — of or relating to hubris
  • Finnish: uhoava — of or relating to hubris
  • Finnish: ylimielinen — of or relating to hubris
  • Finnish: hybristinen — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner
  • Finnish: uhmakas — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner
  • Finnish: uhoava — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner
  • Finnish: ylimielinen — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner
  • German: anmaßend — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner
  • German: großtuerisch — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner
  • German: überheblich — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner
  • Hungarian: önhitt — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner
  • Hungarian: pimasz — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner
  • Hungarian: pökhendi — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner
  • Hungarian: szemtelen — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner
  • Indonesian: hubristik — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner
  • Spanish: jactancioso — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner
  • Spanish: prepotente — overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner