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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hubristic

also hybristic, 1831, from Greek hybristikos "given to wantonness, insolent," from hybrizein, related to hybris (see hubris).

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hubristic

a. 1 Of, or relating to hubris; overly arrogant 2 Displaying hubris (as a personality characteristic)

Usage examples of "hubristic".

And he did not believe that Merlin would rise from the woods to bring chaos to that hubristic Tower of Babel, the Cavendish Laboratory.

The re-creation of wilderness had been, in its fashion, as delicate a task as any exercise in Creation of the kind which hundreds of hubristic engineers were now carrying out in the real and artificial islands of the vast Pacific.

The Last Revolution, of robots against their hubristic makers, is foreshadowed.

They are crude and small and hubristic, but they are reshaping the land.

There had even been tentative, absurdly hubristic schemes to extend the rails hundreds of miles south or west, to link New Crobuzon to Myrshock or Cobsea.

The solipsistic hoarding of your own self and the hubristic munification of your will against the potent authority of the institution, these are textbook psychopathologies.