overconfident

English

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈkɒnfɪdənt/

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Adjective

overconfident (comparative more overconfident, superlative most overconfident)

1. Too confident.

   Synonym: overweening

   Antonyms: underconfident, unconfident

   Coordinate terms: confident, self-assured

   • 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.

   • 2021, Tom Eisenmann, Why Startups Fail, Crown, →ISBN, page 41:

     By propagating a "reality distortion field"—that is, mesmerizing potential employees, investors, and strategic partners so they focus on a startup's world-changing potential rather than on its real-world risks—overconfident and charismatic founders in particular are able to persuade people to commit resources under terms favorable to their new venture.

   1. (sometimes also, via understatement) Presumptuous, cocksure, rude, and disrespectful.

      Synonyms: overweening, arrogant

      Antonyms: underconfident, unconfident, meek, timid

      Near-synonyms: insolent, conceited, foolhardy, cocky

Derived terms

• overconfidently

Translations

too confident

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

  Mandarin: 過於自信的 / 过于自信的 (guòyú zìxìn de)

• 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)
• Irish: rómhuiníneach
• Latin: praefīdens
• Māori: whakatoatoa
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: confiado (es)
• Swedish: övermodig (sv)

presumptuous, cocksure, rude, disrespectful

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無禮的 / 无礼的 (wúlǐ de)

• 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)
• Irish: mórtasach, mórchúiseach
• Russian: самонаде́янный (ru) (samonadéjannyj)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: tvärsäker (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can