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over-confident — adj arrogant, brash, cocksure, self assured, blustering, swaggering, presumptuous, overweening, foolhardy, rash, incautious, over optimistic, sanguine FORMAL hubristic, temerarious COLLOQ. cocky, uppity, uppish ≠ cautious, diffident … Useful english dictionary
sanguine — adj. & n. adj. 1 optimistic; confident. 2 (of the complexion) florid; bright; ruddy. 3 hist. of a ruddy complexion with a courageous and hopeful amorous disposition. 4 hist. of the temperament in which blood predominates over the other humours. 5 … Useful english dictionary
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