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over-confident

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.