What's the difference between overconfident and presumptuous?

Overconfident


Definition:

  • (a.) Confident to excess.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Second, if you follow this line of reasoning, men in general tend to be overconfident (pdf) – the quantity of submissions has nothing to do with the quality of submissions.
  • (2) First comes a feeling of euphoria: then the diver gets overconfident, lulled into a false sense of security, and dangerously overestimates how long they have left.
  • (3) This papillary malignant transformation, not previously observed in inverted papillomas, cautions against overconfidence in benign nature of inverted papilloma.
  • (4) All would have been more suspicious about King's overconfident advice.
  • (5) This does not appear to be due simply to overconfidence in their abilities, since it was the younger and less experienced pilots who held the most unrealistically optimistic appraisals of their ability.
  • (6) Arrogant overconfidence by the NHS – imagine that – means that what should be an extraordinary asset both to patient care and to the UK science base may have been lost for the foreseeable future.
  • (7) As in Dunning et al., moreover, overconfidence could be traced to two sources.
  • (8) Overconfidence and underconfidence indices were also calculated by using the indicated levels of certainty.
  • (9) That impact has rightly produced a challenge to the overconfident intellectual assumptions of the pre-crisis era – assumptions never more prevalent than in some pre-crisis Davos meetings.
  • (10) Of key importance, depressed Ss were less accurate in their predictions, and thus more overconfident, than their nondepressed counterparts.
  • (11) It was a policy pushed by an Afghan government anxious to get British soldiers to fight the insurgency in key areas, and overconfident British officers eagerly pursued it.
  • (12) Further analysis revealed two specific sources of overconfidence.
  • (13) The "well encapsulated" pleomorphic adenoma has at best a pseudocapsule which allows for bits of satellite tumor to be left behind at ""enucleation" surgery as well as for easy "spillage" of tumor by the overconfident surgeon.
  • (14) In the end its overconfidence was its ruin; one interviewee too many, shackled naked to a chair, had been half suffocated with a plastic bag to force a confession.
  • (15) (3) Generally speaking, guidance should be given not to be overconfident or overdefensive in pregnancy.
  • (16) Unanticipated outcomes included: Alcohol intoxication significantly hindered recall from long-term memory, contrary to previous conclusions that alcohol does not affect retrieval; people's expectancy of alcohol had no significant effect on memory or metamemory performance, contrary to its established effects on other kinds of performance; and alcohol intoxication produced no significant overconfidence in judgments about recall or in feeling-of-knowing judgments, contrary to the overconfidence produced in other kinds of judgments such as an intoxicated person's assessment of his driving ability.
  • (17) Overconfidence in clinicians was examined in two independently designed studies, each using a different research approach.
  • (18) This previously described method allows the examinee to receive 'overconfidence' and 'underconfidence' scores.
  • (19) Scores of British troops have been killed in Sangin since Tony Blair, egged on by overconfident British generals, dispatched more than 3,000 service men and women to Helmand in 2006.
  • (20) Buoyed for the previous decade by absurdly high inflows of globally generated credit that created false booms, they suddenly found their overconfident banks had wildly lent too much.

Presumptuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct.
  • (a.) Founded on presumption; as, a presumptuous idea.
  • (a.) Done with hold design, rash confidence, or in violation of known duty; willful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Parent involvement is needed, and it is presumptuous to believe that a couple of hours of contact a week can change lives.
  • (2) Even as I read Tynan’s book at 16, I knew theatre was radically changing: I remember presumptuously giving a talk to the sixth form at Warwick School on the new phenomenon of The Angry Young Man.
  • (3) In such a context, it would be quite presumptuous to ascertain the therapeutic efficacy of a drug from those initial human studies.
  • (4) Infantile delivery also frequently serves to take the curse off self-publicity; sleight of hand for those who find "my programme is on BBC2 tonight" too presumptuous and exposing, and prefer to cower behind the low-status imbecility of "I done rote a fingy for da tellybox!"
  • (5) If I may be so presumptuously bold, Martyn Hett’s brother contains more Britishness in his typing thumb than Ms Hopkins contains in her entire output.
  • (6) I am not so presumptuous as to ask instantly for your vote, but in the recent election 700,000 of you stuck with us, but many of you chose someone else.
  • (7) "Humour me with a rare bit of Confederations Cup kit-chat, but am I the only one who finds the ribbon-like collar on the Spain shirt, inferring yet another winner's medal dangling around the neck, to be a bit presumptuous?"
  • (8) That email contained a reminder about their understanding when the event was first arranged: In the absence of hearing from you we have proceeded on the basis you are happy to go ahead even though the commission is still in hearing (not expected when originally arranged) and thought it presumptuous to do other than leave that up to you.
  • (9) May he rest in peace – and, if it’s not presumptuous, my love to you.
  • (10) I mean, in some ways – this seems a little presumptuous and it's not entirely accurate – but actors and CIA agents are [both] migratory and assume different roles.
  • (11) 'Journalism is not a job; it is a way of life' Now for those of you who only know me from the telly or radio, I should point out that it's not completely presumptuous of me to share some thoughts on the future of the press, because I was in newspapers for 23 years, with long stints at the Independent, the Financial Times and the Sunday Telegraph, in that order.
  • (12) The suggestion that Ireland will operate UK migration controls at its own ports and airports carries with it the same presumptuous air.
  • (13) Since we humans are prone to launching chemical weapons, unwittingly killing off the bee population or other factors that could lead to our extinction, it may be presumptuous to imagine what we'll look like in 100,000 years.
  • (14) It is typically arrogant of David Cameron to presume a third Tory term in 2020 before the British public have been given the chance to have their say in this election.” David Cameron talks breasts, thighs – and third terms Read more A Lib Dem spokesperson said: “It’s incredibly presumptuous of David Cameron to be worrying about a third term as prime minister weeks before the general election.” Downing Street sources immediately tried to row back on Cameron’s comments, saying he was only rejecting the idea of serving a full third term.
  • (15) In a rare public appearance, Omar donned what was said to be the cloak of the Prophet Muhammad in Kandahar, and was proclaimed Amir ul-Momineen, Commander of the Faithful, making him the leader of all Muslims, a claim that many found presumptuous.
  • (16) It feels contemptuous and presumptuous and unpleasant.
  • (17) I mean, honestly, it’s presumptuous to suspect that [US negotiating partners] France, Russia, China, Germany and Britain ought to do what the Congress tells them to do.
  • (18) Election 2015: Tories in turmoil after Cameron rules out third term – live Read more Opponents accused Cameron of taking an election victory for granted and behaving in an “incredibly presumptuous manner” by naming Theresa May, Boris Johnson and George Osborne as likely successors in 2020.
  • (19) She said: : "I've always refused to be drawn on any of these discussions, I think it would be deeply presumptuous of me to do so.
  • (20) He told the conference that far from it being arrogant or presumptuous to make detailed plans, it was the reverse.