overconfident

English

Etymology

over- +‎ confident

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈkɒnfɪdənt/

Adjective

overconfident (comparative more overconfident, superlative most overconfident)

1. Too confident.
   • 2020 April 9, Gaby Hinsliff, “We used to moan about normal life, now our fear is we'll never get it back”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The downturn triggered by putting everyday life on hold to halt the infection should, we were told, be V-shaped: a shock, but one from which we’d soon bounce back. Like many comforting predictions in the early days of this pandemic, that is beginning to look alarmingly over-confident.

2. Presumptuous, cocksure, rude and disrespectful.

Translations

too confident

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: tro memfida, tro memcerta, tro certa
• Finnish: itsevarma (fi), liian itsevarma
• French: outrecuidant (fr), présomptueux (fr)
• German: stolz (de), überheblich (de), vermessen (de), anmaßend (de)
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍃𐌺𐍃 (untilamalsks)
• Latin: praefīdens
• Maori: whakatoatoa
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: confiado (es)
• Swedish: övermodig (sv)

presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: overmoedig (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: itsevarma (fi)
• French: arrogant (fr), présomptueux (fr), condescendant (fr), sec (fr)
• German: anmaßend (de), überheblich (de), vermessen (de), dreist (de), unbescheiden, arrogant (de), unhöflich (de), respektlos (de), verächtlich (de), unverschämt (de)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: tvärsäker (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

See also

• insolent, conceited, foolhardy, cocky