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单词 cocky
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Synonyms of 'cocky'

overconfident, arrogant, brash, swaggering
farmer, smallholder, crofter, grazier
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cocky

British English: cocky ADJECTIVE
Someone who is cocky is so confident and sure of their abilities that they annoy other people.
He was a little bit cocky when he was about 11 because he was winning everything.
  • American English: cocky
  • Brazilian Portuguese: convencido
  • Chinese: 自以为是的
  • European Spanish: farruco
  • French: trop sûr de soi
  • German: großspurig
  • Italian: arrogante
  • Japanese: うぬぼれた
  • Korean: 잘난 체하는
  • European Portuguese: convencido
  • Latin American Spanish: farruco

(adjective) 
Definition
excessively proud of oneself
He was a little cocky because he was winning all the time.
Synonyms
overconfident
a bunch of noisy, overconfident teenagers
arrogant
an air of arrogant indifference
brash
On stage she seems hard, brash and uncompromising.
swaggering
conceited
I thought him conceited and arrogant.
egotistical
cocksure
a cocksure, self-confident performer
swollen-headed
vain
Don't worry about what he said, he's shallow, vain and self-centred.
full of yourself
He's full of himself.
Opposites
modest
,
hesitant
,
self-effacing
,
lacking confidence
,
unsure of yourself
,
uncertain of yourself
(Australian, New Zealand, informal)
(noun) 
He got some casual work with the cane cockies on Maroochy River.
Synonyms
farmer
He was a simple farmer scratching a living from the soil.
smallholder
crofter (Scottish)
grazier
agriculturalist
rancher
husbandman

Additional synonyms

in the sense of arrogant
Definition
having an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance or ability
an air of arrogant indifference
Synonyms
conceited,
lordly,
assuming,
proud,
swaggering,
pompous,
pretentious,
stuck up (informal),
cocky,
contemptuous,
blustering,
imperious,
overbearing,
haughty,
scornful,
puffed up,
egotistical,
disdainful,
self-important,
presumptuous,
high-handed,
insolent,
supercilious,
high and mighty (informal),
overweening,
immodest,
swollen-headed,
bigheaded (informal),
uppish (British, informal),
too big for your boots or breeches
in the sense of brash
Definition
impudent or bold
On stage she seems hard, brash and uncompromising.
Synonyms
bold,
forward,
rude,
arrogant,
cocky,
pushy (informal),
brazen,
presumptuous,
impertinent,
insolent,
impudent,
bumptious,
cocksure,
overconfident,
hubristic,
full of yourself
in the sense of cocksure
Definition
overconfident or arrogant
a cocksure, self-confident performer
Synonyms
overconfident,
arrogant,
brash,
cocky,
presumptuous,
bumptious,
hubristic,
full of yourself

Nearby words of
cocky

  • cockiness
  • cocksure
  • cocktail
  • cocky
  • cocoon
  • cod
  • coddle

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