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[ hyoo-bris, hoo- ] / ˈhyu brɪs, ˈhu- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR hubris ON THESAURUS.COM
nounexcessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance. Origin of hubrisFirst recorded in 1880–85, hubris is from the Greek word hýbris insolence OTHER WORDS FROM hubrishu·bris·tic, adjectivenon·hu·bris·tic, adjectiveun·hu·bris·tic, adjectiveWords nearby hubrisHubel, Hubert, Hubertusburg, Hubli, Hubli-Dharwad, hubris, huckaback, huckery, huckle, huckleberry, Huckleberry Finn Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for hubrisI maintained that hubris until October of 2017, when my daughter was born. How to Pack for a Family Camping Trip|Joe Jackson|October 1, 2020|Outside Online Heading off hubris was one of the commission’s main concerns, Lifton said. Strict new guidelines lay out a path to heritable human gene editing|Tina Hesman Saey|September 3, 2020|Science News He won re-election twice as governor of New York, and had the hubris to run for a fourth term before being defeated in 1994. Mario Cuomo, a Frustrating Hero to Democrats, Is Dead at 82|Eleanor Clift|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST What were his weaknesses as a military commander: was it hubris? Napoleon Was a Dynamite Dictator|J.P. O’Malley|November 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The hubris of that position did so much to create and compound these problems. Is It Just Me or Is the World Exploding? So Why Isn’t Obama Doing More?|Michael Tomasky|July 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST Can Clinton help find the elusive middle ground in American foreign policy between the hubris of Bush and the reluctance of Obama? What Drives Clinton? Not What You Think|Kim Ghattas|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST Downes disparages this as hubris, “man too big for his boots.” Rackstraw Downes’s Art and Essays Are Two Sides of the Same Genius|Bill Morris|June 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST Each Year arrives, waxes great, commits the sin of Hubris, and then is slain. Five Stages of Greek Religion|Gilbert Murray Her hubris was in part, at all events, the result of ignorance. Before the War|Viscount Richard Burton Haldane Every year He waxes too strong and commits "Hubris," and such sin has its proper punishment. Euripedes and His Age|Gilbert Murray
British Dictionary definitions for hubris
nounpride or arrogance (in Greek tragedy) an excess of ambition, pride, etc, ultimately causing the transgressor's ruin Derived forms of hubrishubristic or hybristic, adjectiveWord Origin for hubrisC19: from Greek Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to hubrispretension, audacity, chutzpah, vanity, cockiness, presumption, nerve, pompousness, self-importance, cheek, ostentation, pretentiousness, airs, brass, insolence, loftiness, disdain, conceitedness, contemptuousness |