overconfident
/əʊvəˈkɒnfɪd(ə)nt
/adjective
Excessively confident: Sarah’s downfall came through being overconfident...
- As stupid as they seemed - one overconfident, one not confident enough - the two mercenaries were the best men for this job.
- There's a reason we feel confident, but I hardly feel overconfident.
- Organizations are powerful tools, however recalcitrant, but they can also be very presumptuous and overconfident.
Synonyms
cocksure, smug, conceited, self-assured, self-assertive, unabashed, brash, swaggering, blustering, overbearing, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, riding/heading for a fall, foolhardy
informal cocky, too big for one's boots
rare hubristic
Derivatives
overconfidently
/ adverb ...- It is noteworthy, too, that the stock market does not appear fully sold on the recovery story - though some might argue that here, too, recovery has already - and overconfidently - been built in to existing ratings.