adjective
- showing excessive pride or arrogance; displaying hubris
Usage: formal
Examples
- The CEO’s hubristic belief that he could never fail led to the company’s downfall.
- Her hubristic attitude toward the competition cost her the championship.
- The politician’s hubristic promises proved impossible to keep.
- His hubristic dismissal of expert advice resulted in disaster.
- The general’s hubristic strategy ignored the enemy’s strengths.
- Their hubristic assumption that they were invincible was quickly proven wrong.