overconfident
/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈkɒnfɪdənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Too confident.
adj
Too confident.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Near-synonyms: insolent, conceited, foolhardy, cocky"
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.
Inflected Forms
more overconfident (comparative)
most overconfident (superlative)