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Presumptuous vs Cocksure - What's the difference?

presumptuous | cocksure |

As adjectives the difference between presumptuous and cocksure

is that presumptuous is going beyond what is right, proper, or appropriate because of an excess of self-confidence or arrogance while cocksure is (informal) too confident; overconfident.

presumptuous

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Going beyond what is right, proper, or appropriate because of an excess of self-confidence or arrogance.

    • Synonyms

    * (going beyond what is proper) overconfident, foolhardy, rash, presuming, forward, arrogant, insolent, conceited

    Related terms

    * presumption

    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.