adj
Meaning 1
Too confident.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: overweening
Antonyms: underconfident, unconfident
Standard Lemma guide
overconfident
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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adj
Meaning 2
Too confident.
Presumptuous, cocksure, rude, and disrespectful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, sometimes
Qualifier: via understatement
Examples
- Near-synonyms: insolent, conceited, foolhardy, cocky
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: overweening, arrogant, insolent, conceited, foolhardy, cocky
Antonyms: underconfident, unconfident, meek, timid
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
marked by excessive confidence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cocksure, positive
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English confident English overconfident From over- + confident.
Across languages
Translations
40 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: refiat — too confident
- Chinese Mandarin: 過於自信的 /过于自信的 (guòyú zìxìn de) — too confident
- Esperanto: tro memfida — too confident
- Esperanto: tro memcerta — too confident
- Esperanto: tro certa — too confident
- Finnish: itsevarma — too confident
- Finnish: liian itsevarma — too confident
- French: outrecuidant — too confident
- French: présomptueux — too confident
- German: stolz — too confident
- German: überheblich — too confident
- German: vermessen — too confident
- German: anmaßend — too confident
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍃𐌺𐍃 (untilamalsks) — too confident
- Irish: rómhuiníneach — too confident
- Latin: praefīdens — too confident
- Māori: whakatoatoa — too confident
- Spanish: confiado — too confident
- Swedish: övermodig — too confident
- Chinese Mandarin: 無禮的 /无礼的 (wúlǐ de) — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- Dutch: overmoedig — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- Finnish: itsevarma — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- French: arrogant — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- French: présomptueux — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- French: condescendant — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- French: sec — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- German: anmaßend — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- German: überheblich — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- German: vermessen — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- German: dreist — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- German: unbescheiden — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- German: arrogant — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- German: unhöflich — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- German: respektlos — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- German: verächtlich — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- German: unverschämt — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- Irish: mórtasach — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- Irish: mórchúiseach — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- Russian: самонаде́янный (samonadéjannyj) — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful
- Swedish: tvärsäker — presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful