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Too sure of oneself for novice, tend to be mistaken
Answer for the clue "Too sure of oneself for novice, tend to be mistaken ", 14 letters:
over-confident
Word definitions for over-confident in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from over- + confident . Related: Overconfidently .
Usage examples of over-confident.
Gladstone, who is fast nearing his eightieth birthday, would boast, in the style of Caleb, that he was as good a man with his axe as he was when he was forty, but I would back him,--if the match were possible, for a hundred shekels, against that over-confident old Israelite, to cut down and chop up a cedar of Lebanon.
This time the markings looked more complicated, and at first I feared that Celestine had been over-confident.