hubris

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hu=bris

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hubris, n.
1 arrogant pride or presumption.
2 (in Greek tragedy) excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.

Derivative

hubristic adj.

Etymology

Gk

THESAURUS

hubris

arrogance, assumption, assurance, assuredness, audacity, belief, boldness, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, bumptiousness, certitude, cheek, chutzpah, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, contumely, conviction, courage, effrontery, faith, familiarity, gall, hardihood, heroics, imposition, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence, lawlessness, liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, obtrusiveness, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, poise, pomposity, positiveness, presumption, presumptuousness, pride, procacity, pushiness, rashness, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, settled belief, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, temerariousness, temerity, trust, unchariness, undue liberty, unwariness, uppishness, uppityness