Definition of hubristic in English:
hubristic
adjective h(j)uːˈbrɪstɪk(h)juˈbrɪstɪk
Excessively proud or self-confident.
a hubristic belief in his own self-proclaimed genius
Example sentencesExamples
- In its war on the press, this hubristic administration may finally have crossed a bridge too far.
- They are missing the fact that his dream was so hubristic as to be delusional.
- Turning the world upside down is a dangerous, hubristic aim.
- His decision to specify something bigger, better or more daring than the norm was logical, not hubristic: he believed it would result in a faster, safer, smoother-running railway.
- This offers a window into the corporate record industry's hubristic faith in endless growth.
- The likelihood of suffering tragedy increases with a hubristic belief that we have everything under control.
- The administration's hubristic foreign policy has been efficiently exposed as based on nothing more than hallucination.
- It is dangerously ambitious, if not outright hubristic, to use Homer's poem about the rage of Achilles as your source.
- I thought this celebration might be a tad hasty and hubristic as there were still two cards to come.
- It would be hubristic for any critic to think he is absolutely right and the mainstream record-buying public are absolutely wrong.
Definition of hubristic in US English:
hubristic
adjective(h)yo͞oˈbristik(h)juˈbrɪstɪk
Excessively proud or self-confident.
a hubristic belief in his own self-proclaimed genius
Example sentencesExamples
- The administration's hubristic foreign policy has been efficiently exposed as based on nothing more than hallucination.
- The likelihood of suffering tragedy increases with a hubristic belief that we have everything under control.
- His decision to specify something bigger, better or more daring than the norm was logical, not hubristic: he believed it would result in a faster, safer, smoother-running railway.
- It is dangerously ambitious, if not outright hubristic, to use Homer's poem about the rage of Achilles as your source.
- In its war on the press, this hubristic administration may finally have crossed a bridge too far.
- Turning the world upside down is a dangerous, hubristic aim.
- I thought this celebration might be a tad hasty and hubristic as there were still two cards to come.
- They are missing the fact that his dream was so hubristic as to be delusional.
- This offers a window into the corporate record industry's hubristic faith in endless growth.
- It would be hubristic for any critic to think he is absolutely right and the mainstream record-buying public are absolutely wrong.