1. cocksure - Adjective
2. cocksure - Adjective Satellite
Perfectly safe.
Quite certain.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I wish I were as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
There was something about the cocksure confidence of that statement that gave Auger goose pimples. It was like an invitation to fate. Alastair Reynolds
It was easy to sound that confident; less easy to believe it in his heart. They had got this far did not give them an automatic guarantee of success. The world did not work like that. It took pleasure in punishing the cocksure. Alastair Reynolds
Their attitude to Marx, as the leading critic of capitalism, is therefore much less cocksure than it used to be. In my belief, they have much to learn from him. Joan Robinson