Orgulous vs Confident - What's the difference?
orgulous | confident |
Proud; haughty; disdainful.
*1485 , (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte D'Arthur) , Macmillan and Co. (1891),
*:At that time there was a knight, the which was the king's son of Ireland, and his name was Lanceor, the which was an orgulous knight, and counted himself one of the best of the court; and he had great despite at Balin for the achieving of the sword, that any should be accounted more hardy, or of more prowess.
*1922 , (James Joyce), , Episode 14:
*:Then spoke young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom.
*1966 , Eric Walter White, Stravinsky the Composer and his Works , University of California Press (1966),
*:Her nephew describes her as 'an orgulous and despotic woman', and it is clear that he noticed and resented her numerous unkindnesses.
*1975 , (Georgette Heyer), (My Lord John) , Arrow Books (2011), ISBN 0099476428,
*:They knew that my lord of Arundel had grown so orgulous that he had lately dared to marry the Earl of March's sister, without license.
Ostentatious; showy.
Swollen; augmented; excessive.
Threatening; dangerous.
very sure of something; positive
self-confident
As adjectives the difference between orgulous and confident
is that orgulous is proud; haughty; disdainful while confident is very sure of something; positive.As a noun confident is
.orgulous
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)page 52(Book II, Chapter IV):
page 5:
pages 14-15:
Derived terms
* (l)confident
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
