different between cocksure vs overconfident
cocksure
English
Alternative forms
- cock-sure
Etymology
Probably from cock +? sure, early 16th c.
Adjective
cocksure (comparative more cocksure, superlative most cocksure)
- (informal) too confident; overconfident
- 1716, Alexander Pope, letter to the Earl of Burlington
- I thought myself cocksure of his horse, which he readily promis'd me.
- Cocksure certainty is the source of much that is worst in our present world, and it is something of which the contemplation of history ought to cure us, not only or chiefly because there were wise men in the past, but because so much that was thought wisdom turned out to be folly – which suggests that much of our own supposed wisdom is no better. I do not mean to maintain that we should lapse into a lazy scepticism. We should hold our beliefs, and hold them strongly. Nothing great is achieved without passion, but underneath the passion there should always be that large impersonal survey which sets limits to actions that our passions inspire.
- 1716, Alexander Pope, letter to the Earl of Burlington
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overconfident
English
Etymology
over- +? confident
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???v?(?)?k?nf?d?nt/
Adjective
overconfident (comparative more overconfident, superlative most overconfident)
- Too confident.
- Presumptuous, cocksure, rude and disrespectful.
Translations
See also
- insolent, conceited, foolhardy, cocky
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