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Assured vs Cocksure - What's the difference?

assured | cocksure |

As adjectives the difference between assured and cocksure

is that assured is guaranteed while cocksure is (informal) too confident; overconfident.

As a verb assured

is (assure).

assured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (assure)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Guaranteed
  • Confident.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 15 , author=Marc Higginson , title=Shamrock Rovers 0 - 4 Tottenham , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Youngster Townsend caught the eye on the wing, with his fantastic goal capping a classy performance, while Danny Rose continued his rapid development with an assured display at full-back.}}

    Synonyms

    * (guaranteed) sicker

    Derived terms

    * assuredly * mutual assured destruction * self-assured * unassured

    cocksure

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) too confident; overconfident
    • I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. — Alexander Pope.
  • * 1906 , John Galsworthy,
    • The persistence of the Past is one of those tragicomic blessings which each new age denies, coming cocksure on to the stage to mouth its claim to a perfect novelty.
  • *1920 , Sinclair Lewis, The Main Street ,
  • *:These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.