different between despotic vs cocksure

English

Alternative forms

• despotick

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (despotikós) via French despotique.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dis?p?t.?k/, /d?s?p?t.?k/, /d??sp?t.?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?p?t.?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

despotic (comparative more despotic, superlative most despotic)

1. Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.

2. Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical.

   The despotic king dissolved the parliament, and took personal control of the country.

Synonyms

• (acting or ruling as a despot): domineering, tyrannical

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• cetopsid

Romanian

Etymology

From French despotique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /des?po.tik/

Adjective

despotic m or n (feminine singular despotic?, masculine plural despotici, feminine and neuter plural despotice)

1. despotic

Declension

Further reading

• despotic in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Alternative forms

• cock-sure

Etymology

Probably from cock +? sure, early 16th c.

Adjective

cocksure (comparative more cocksure, superlative most cocksure)

1. (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.

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