Vocabulary
Hubris
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
excessive pride or self-confidence.
Urdu meaning
زعم، گھمنڈ، غرور
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The cause for both incidents is considerably different palace intrigue and political machinations in the first, and nature colliding with human hubris and greed in the second.
- Their talks might have led to an agreement a capstone to the 1999 Lahore Declaration, signed by PM Vajpayee and PM Nawaz Sharif in Lahore had hubris not overtaken Musharraf.
- India`s hubris about its strategic importance for Washington, nurtured over the decades, blindsided Indian officials to the fallout of the tariff discord on the relationship.
- India`s hubris thus faces a possible new world, especially having been brought down a notch or two by Pakistan.
- IS it hubris or something else that motivates the regime to set the bar lower each time it has an opportunity to put things back on track?
Synonyms
arrogance, conceit, conceitedness, haughtiness, pride, vanity, self-importance, self-conceit,
Curator example
“the self-assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late 1980s”
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