Crossword-Solution: OVERCONFIDENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Overconfident | a. | Confident to excess. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “OVERCONFIDENT”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Excessively self-assured | 1 answer |
| Too sure | 2 answers |
| Too sure of oneself | 4 answers |
| Complacent | 19 answers |
| assuming | 28 answers |
| cocksure | 29 answers |
| Optimistic | 68 answers |
| Affected | 80 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "OVERCONFIDENT"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
10 +1
New Suggestion for "OVERCONFIDENT"
Related word tools
Sentences with OVERCONFIDENT (5)
All night long he sat unruffled in his office, while refugees from the stricken field--especially those overconfident Senators and Representatives who had gone out to watch the overthrow of the Confederates--poured into his ears their various and conflicting accounts of the catastrophe.
With respect to the cutting off an enemy’s retreat, we must not be overconfident in this respect either of the consequences of threatening or closing the enemy’s lines of retreat, as recent experience has shown that, when troops are good and their leader resolute, it is _more difficult_ to make them prisoners, than it is for them to cut their way through the force opposed to them.
Madame de Beauvais had a son, whom the husband (whether overconfident or not) saw brought into the world with much delight, and whom, with a wealth of royalist respect, they baptised under the agreeable name of Louis.
Rendered overconfident by long-continued success, our champion gradually permits himself to drift into a weakened physical condition.
Therefore my answer to the overconfident patient may be something like this: "Remember what I told you.
Quotes with OVERCONFIDENT (3)
Who would appreciate such candor? No one. None of us really likes honesty. We prefer deception — but only when it is unabashedly flattering or artfully camouflaged. Groups seem to need to believe that they are superior to others and that they have a purpose greater than just passing along their genes to the next generation. Individuals seem to need similar delusions — about who they are and why they do what they do. They need heroes, however fraudulent… Studies show that peop…
Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.
To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's through descent with modification driven by the Darwinian mechanism. But within a design-theoretic framework, this possibility, though not precluded, is also not the only game in town. It's possible for descent with modification instead to be driven by telic processes inherent in nature (and t…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2012–2017).