overconfident
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5.3
- adjective
- /ˌoʊvərˈkɒnfɪdənt/
:
demasiado confiado
- He was overconfident about winning the race, believing he didn't need to train.
- somewhat overconfident
So I don't, I don't, I don't mock them for being overconfident.
- So I don't, I don't, I don't mock them for being overconfident.
- So again, if the guy's extremely charismatic, overconfident, but I thought overconfidence didn't exist.
- You know, to the point where they were, as you would put it, overconfident.
- You know, Harold Shea, the very first story is him, and he's a little bit too overconfident because he's compensating for stuff.
- Like a very, very overconfident kid.
- One, make you feel overconfident that you're doing well.
- In fact at this point you know, I'd gone past that point of lacking confidence to overconfident and I'd gone On this date.
- It was, it's perceived as almost almost egoic and almost overconfident.
- And we're, we're seeing all the ways that this plan that we were so confident, so overconfident in.
Examples
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I fear Pugsley is overconfident and doesn't truly understand the importance of this tradition.
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Investors are often wildly overconfident about what's going to happen.
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Oh, no, I got overconfident, and I broke up with her.
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Like a very, very overconfident kid.
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"All of us were overconfident, and that was my fault."
Fiction book (2001) -
Perhaps we were overconfident due to our quiet and successful past.
Academic text (1996) -
The point is I was proud, overconfident.
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In particular, I was thought to be extremely overconfident.
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Overall, it's better to be overconfident because at least one is gaining experience.
Blog text (12) -
Don't get overconfident.
Synonyms
260
4.5
Behaving as if you are more important or better than other people
99
4.2
Being too confident and acting proud so other people dislike you
44
6.4
Too satisfied with yourself so you ignore problems or danger
24
5.4
Thinking you are much better than other people
24
6.6
Seeing yourself as much more important than other people
13
5.8
Acting as if you are better than other people
3
8.2
Being too confident in a proud, annoying way
3
9.9
Bragging too much about how great you think you are
3
9.1
Acting more important than you really are
2
9.8
Too much pride and confidence that makes people dislike you
1
7.2
Thinking you are more important than other people
1
8.4
Being too proud and too sure of yourself so you ignore advice and make bad decisions
1
7.3
Trying to do more than is reasonable or possible
Very sure about yourself and what you can do
Feeling very sure about your abilities and success
Thinking you are better than other people
Believing you are better than other people and acting like it
Being too satisfied with yourself and not seeing your mistakes
Acting more confident and important than you really are
Antonyms
How Confident
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word overconfident combines over- meaning 'too much' (as in overcook) and confident meaning 'sure of yourself', so it helps you remember that being overconfident is being 'too sure' about your abilities.