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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cocksure, overconfident, positiveadjective

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. overconfidentadjective

    too confident.

  2. overconfidentadjective

    presumptuous, cocksure, rude and disrespectful.

ChatGPT

  1. overconfident

    Overconfident refers to an excessively high level of confidence that surpasses an accurate self-understanding or objective evaluation of one's abilities, knowledge, or skills. It can lead to a disregard of potential risks or dangers, and potentially cause inaccurate predictions or poor decision-making. Overconfidence often characterized by inflated self-esteem or an overly optimistic belief in success.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of overconfident in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of overconfident in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of overconfident in a Sentence

  1. Natalie Dale:

    Some drivers seem to be overconfident when they should be taking it slow.

  2. Jim Jordan:

    My background [is] wrestling. We always say, ‘Never be overconfident, just be confident’ — so we can't be overconfident. We've got to do the work.

  3. Moon Chung-in:

    The United States made excessive demands on North Korea to reach a big deal, whereas Chairman Kim was overconfident that he could persuade Trump to get what he wants for closing down the Yongbyon main nuclear complex.

  4. Reid Magney:

    I don't want to sound overconfident, but we have a lot of experience dealing with very close elections and a lot of scrutiny about those elections, we know not to roll out new technology right before an election.

  5. Andrea Ghez:

    We're learning how gravity works. It's one of four fundamental forces and the one we have tested the least, there are many regions where we just haven't asked, how does gravity work here ? It's easy to be overconfident and there are many ways to misinterpret the data, many ways that small errors can accumulate into significant mistakes, which is why we did not rush our analysis.

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