Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Completely sure; certain.
- adjective Too sure; overconfident.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Perfectly secure or safe.
- Confidently or absolutely sure or certain.
- With perfect security or certainty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Perfectly safe.
- adjective colloq. Quite certain.
- adjective colloq. overconfident; -- of people.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective informal too
confident ;overconfident
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by excessive confidence
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Examples
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Funny about men, she reflected, that term cocksure really fitted every one of them.
Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009
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I simply cannot condone this kind of cocksure attitude because it must violate decency laws in several states.
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There was danger of her becoming altogether too "cocksure," when she was one day pulled up sharply by the following occurrence:
The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service Johanna Brandt 1920
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They seem to have a very "cocksure" approach beforehand and yet, continually come home with their tails between their legs.
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Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.
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Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.
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Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.
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Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.
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Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.
The_City_Troll 2008
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Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.
케발컨 commented on the word cocksure
This word makes me laugh cause I'm immature, haha
August 2, 2008