From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cocksure \Cock"sure'\, adjective
We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. --Shak.
I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. --Pope.
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.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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
Define.com is a registered nonprofit corporation dedicated solely to the global public interest and the advancement of humanity. It belongs to all of us who have a desire to promote electronic democracy, science, creativity, imagination, reason, critical thinking, peace, race and gender equality, civil rights, equal access to education, personal liberty, free speech, animal rights, compassionate and nonviolent parenting, social and economic justice, global monetary reform, Secular Humanism, cognitive liberty and a permanent cessation of The War on Drugs.
Let's see what we can do if we put our heads together.
0