overconfident

1. 1.

   marked by excessive confidence

   “an arrogant and cocksure materialist”

   “so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen”

   “the less he knows the more positive he gets”

   Synonymscocksurepositive

   Similarconfident

Questions about overconfident

What does overconfident mean?

overconfident means "marked by excessive confidence".

How many syllables are in overconfident?

overconfident has 5 syllables: o-ver-con-fi-dent. The stress falls on "con". In IPA it is /ˌoʊvɚˈkɑnfɪdənt/.

What is another word for overconfident?

Close synonyms include cocksure, positive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overconfident a common word?

overconfident is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.