cocksure

Thân thiện

He strutted into the room with a cocksure grin.

Definition

Adjective: 1. Excessively or arrogantly confident: Feeling or showing absolute certainty, often in a way that is overbearing, presumptuous, or irritating to others. It implies a confidence that is not tempered by doubt or humility.

Usage

The adjective "cocksure" is used to describe a person, attitude, or manner that is unshakably and offensively confident. It is a critical term, often suggesting that the confidence is unfounded, foolish, or impudent. - It typically precedes a noun (e.g., a cocksure attitude) or follows a linking verb (e.g., He was cocksure). - It is a somewhat formal or literary word with a strong negative connotation.

Examples

• The cocksure young executive dismissed the veteran team's advice, leading to a costly mistake.
• She answered every question with a cocksure smile, as if failure were impossible.
• His cocksure prediction about the market crash proved to be completely wrong.

Advanced Usage

• "cocksure of oneself": A common phrase emphasizing the self-directed nature of the overconfidence.
  • Even after the setback, he remained cocksure of himself.

Variants and Related Words

• Cocksureness (noun): The quality or state of being cocksure.
  • His cocksureness was his ultimate downfall.

Synonyms

• Overconfident
• Arrogant
• Presumptuous
• Smug
• Complacent

Antonyms

• Diffident
• Hesitant
• Uncertain
• Humble
• Tentative

Related Idioms and Phrases

• "Sure as eggs is eggs": An old-fashioned idiom expressing absolute certainty, sometimes associated with a cocksure attitude.
• While not a phrasal verb, the adjectival phrase "full of oneself" conveys a similar meaning of arrogant self-confidence.

Học thuật

Adjective

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• overconfident
• positive