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/ˌəʊvəkˈɒnfɪdənt/
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[ US /ˌoʊvɝˈkɑnfɪdənt/ ]
[ US /ˌoʊvɝˈkɑnfɪdənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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marked by excessive confidence
an arrogant and cocksure materialist
so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen
the less he knows the more positive he gets
How To Use overconfident In A Sentence
- Many of Jay Ward's characters and catchphrases have since morphed into pop-culture shorthand: Dudley Do-Right, the clueless Mountie, is shorthand for anybody who stumbles into a situation overconfident he's doing the right thing; Snidely Whiplash, Do-Right's nemesis, for a scenery-chewing villain; the "Waybac" Machine, Mr. Peabody's time-travel system, for a nostalgia flashback; as well as expressions such as "nothing up my sleeve ... presto!" and JSOnline.com
- He proved overconfident on the witness stand, misremembering a key piece of evidence.
- Lack of understanding makes them overconfident.
- I thought it would be good for me to look at someone every day who was overconfident, who misjudged the odds and his own abilities, and who lost everything.
- Instead, it seems to have made the players overconfident.
- He proved overconfident on the witness stand, misremembering a key piece of evidence.
- He proved overconfident on the witness stand, misremembering a key piece of evidence.
- His puck-handling prowess can cause him to get overconfident or rattled by elements such as a kink in the boards of a road arena.
- I have just come across yet another site that faithfully provides us with Pokorny's work, rather overconfidently named Linguistics Research Center, a site coming from the University of Texas. Pokorny lives again
- From a cerebral, indomitable, and ultimately overconfident persona, MacArthur tipped into an unsoldierly emergency-man mode. Magic and Mayhem