英语词汇“overconfident”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

If you're overconfident, you're so sure of yourself that you're pushy and obnoxious. It's important to be confident at a job interview, but if you're overconfident, you may come across as downright rude.

There's a fine line between confidence and overconfidence: being confident is attractive and appropriate. When someone seems overconfident, though, they appear to be unrealistically sure of themselves, more arrogant than poised. Overconfident combines the prefix over-, "too much," and confident, from the Latin confidentem, "firmly trusting or self-confident."

WORD FAMILY

overconfident: overconfidence, overconfidently+/confidence: confidences, confidential, self-confidence/confident: confidence, confidenter, confidently, overconfident, self-confident/confidential: confidentiality, confidentially

USAGE EXAMPLES

Because your conscious mind is basically an overconfident storyteller.

Time(Dec 13, 2016)

Jordan strongly suggested after the Brooklyn defeat that the Clippers were showing signs of being an overconfident group for no good reason.

Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016)

“At the time, I would consider myself a big shot - overconfident. It was bad,” he said.

Washington Times(Nov 28, 2016)

adj marked by excessive confidence

so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen

Syn

cocksure, positive
confident

having or marked by confidence or assurance

单词	overconfident
释义	overconfident (once / 17459 pages) adj If you're overconfident, you're so sure of yourself that you're pushy and obnoxious. It's important to be confident at a job interview, but if you're overconfident, you may come across as downright rude. There's a fine line between confidence and overconfidence: being confident is attractive and appropriate. When someone seems overconfident, though, they appear to be unrealistically sure of themselves, more arrogant than poised. Overconfident combines the prefix over-, "too much," and confident, from the Latin confidentem, "firmly trusting or self-confident." WORD FAMILY overconfident: overconfidence, overconfidently+/confidence: confidences, confidential, self-confidence/confident: confidence, confidenter, confidently, overconfident, self-confident/confidential: confidentiality, confidentially USAGE EXAMPLES Because your conscious mind is basically an overconfident storyteller. Time(Dec 13, 2016) Jordan strongly suggested after the Brooklyn defeat that the Clippers were showing signs of being an overconfident group for no good reason. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) “At the time, I would consider myself a big shot - overconfident. It was bad,” he said. Washington Times(Nov 28, 2016) adj marked by excessive confidence so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen Syn cocksure, positive confident having or marked by confidence or assurance
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