overconfident

comparative more overconfident · superlative most overconfident

1. 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

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   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

   Synonyms: overweening · Antonyms: underconfident, unconfident

   1. alsosometimesvia understatementPresumptuous, cocksure, rude, and disrespectful.

      Near-synonyms: insolent, conceited, foolhardy, cocky

      Synonyms: overweening, overweening, arrogant, insolent, conceited, foolhardy, cocky · Antonyms: underconfident, unconfident, underconfident, unconfident, meek, timid