overconfident
adj/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈkɒnfɪdənt/
Etymology From over- + confident.
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Too confident.
- The downturn triggered by putting everyday life on hold to halt the infection should, we were told, be V-shaped: a shock, but one from which we’d soon bounce back. Like many comforting predictions in the early days of this pandemic, that is beginning to look alarmingly over-confident.2020 April 9, Gaby Hinsliff, “We used to moan about normal life, now our fear is we'll never get it back”, in The Guardian:
- By propagating a "reality distortion field"—that is, mesmerizing potential employees, investors, and strategic partners so they focus on a startup's world-changing potential rather than on its real-world risks—overconfident and charismatic founders in particular are able to persuade people to commit resources under terms favorable to their new venture.2021, Tom Eisenmann, Why Startups Fail, Crown, →ISBN, page 41:
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Also, Sometimes Presumptuous, cocksure, rude, and disrespectful.
Via understatement
- Near-synonyms: insolent, conceited, foolhardy, cocky
- Derived terms
- overconfidently