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Cocksure vs Vainglorious - What's the difference?

cocksure | vainglorious |

As adjectives the difference between cocksure and vainglorious

is that cocksure is (informal) too confident; overconfident while vainglorious is with excessive vanity or unwarranted pride.

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.

    • vainglorious

    English

    From (etyl) vain glorios, from (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • With excessive vanity or unwarranted pride.

    • Related terms

    * vainglory