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hyperconfident en · ADJ

Etymology

From hyper- + confident.

Meanings

  1. Extremely confident.
    • All of which has left investors questioning whether Mr. Miller — a hyperconfident corporate handicapper who is famous for lugging annual reports to Baltimore Orioles games despite being an avid fan —— has just hit a long-overdue rough patch or has lost his magic touch, or whether his fund has grown too large to produce the stellar returns it did in earlier years, when he was still relatively unknown. 2008 May 11, Geraldine Fabrikant, “Humbler, After a Streak of Magic”, in New York Times:

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