Cocksure

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cocksure \Cock"sure`\, a.
     1. Perfectly safe. [Obs.]
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              We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk
              invisible.                            --Shak.


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     2. Quite certain. [Colloq.]
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              I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he
              readily promised me.                  --Pope.
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     3. overconfident; -- of people; as, the team was so cocksure
        of winning that they didn't practice in the week before
        the big game.. [Colloq.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cocksure
       adj : 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" [syn: {overconfident}, {positive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "cocksure":
     arrogant, assured, certain, confident, convinced, decided,
     determined, hubristic, overconfident, oversure, overweening,
     persuaded, poised, pompous, positive, proud, reassured, secure,
     self-assured, self-confident, self-important, self-reliant, sure,
     unafraid, undoubting, unfaltering, unhesitating, unwavering