Misconfident

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.

    "Such men, instead of convincing, yield; and make themselves miserable, and their opposites foolishly proud and misconfident."

Example

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"Such men, instead of convincing, yield; and make themselves miserable, and their opposites foolishly proud and misconfident."

Etymology

From mis- + confident.

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