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misconfident

misconfident adjective: having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.

Adjective

misconfident (comparative more misconfident, superlative most misconfident)

  1. Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.
    • Such men, instead of convincing, yield; and make themselves miserable, and their opposites foolishly proud and misconfident.1640, Bishop Hall, Christian Moderation

Forms of misconfident

comparativemore misconfident
superlativemost misconfident

Origin of misconfident

From mis- + confident.

Questions about misconfident

What does misconfident mean?
Misconfident means having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.
What part of speech is misconfident?
Misconfident is an adjective.

Words near misconfident in the dictionary

  1. misconducting
  2. misconducts
  3. misconfide
  4. misconfided
  5. misconfidence
  6. misconfident
  7. misconfides
  8. misconfiding
  9. misconfiguration
  10. misconfigurations
  11. misconfigure

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