HUBRISTIC Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

hubristic

adjective

Definition of hubristic

as in narcissistic

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Recent Examples of hubristic In hindsight, that moment of hubristic braggadocio may have provoked the wrath of the retail gods. — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025 The hubristic nature of the expedition that follows, and the landscapes captured, call to mind a very different Herzog title. — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025 But the arguments that AI will take over tasks and that will allow people to be more fully human is terribly mistaken and overtly hubristic. — Caleb Harris, Austin American Statesman, 26 Feb. 2026 By chance, Rhaena arrives at the Gullet on dragonback just in time to make the same hubristic mistake as her sister and her cousin, all suffering from the delusion that the war needs them. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 June 2026 The seminal story of hubristic man’s creation of intelligence, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, arose from the voice of a 19-year-old woman. — Adam Verner september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 The Iraq War’s neoconservative architects suffered from a hubristic faith in American power and their own righteousness. — George Packer, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026 In our own history, the failures of the Vietnam and Iraq wars owed less to insufficient brawn than to arrogance, cultural blindness, and the hubristic dismissal of diplomacy as weakness. — Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hubristic

Adjective

James is every ambitious director threatening to topple this town in a narcissistic quest to create the ultimate special effects epic.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
The decisions made by the narcissistic leader will primarily be to their benefit.

— Gregory Stebbins, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of narcissistic

Adjective

It is used in systems like EgoMimic and EMMA to train manipulation policies from egocentric human data.

— Rushil Agarwal, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
In less than a year, several firms have cropped up in India that recruit people to record first-person or egocentric videos.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 25 June 2026

Definition of egocentric

Adjective

Avoid Burying Praise in Negatives To avoid making children too conceited, parents might bury praise in the midst of negatives.

— Wayne Parker, Parents, 8 Mar. 2026
The Pitt definitely feels like the type of workplace where conceited doctors-in-training are pretty much guaranteed to quickly get knocked down a peg.

— Megan McCluskey, Time, 8 Jan. 2026

Definition of conceited

Adjective

Claire’s elective death therefore remains a problematic choice for some viewers, an act of vainglorious selfishness from a woman who was never terribly nice to begin with.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026
Melodramatic and vainglorious, moody and capricious, a fidgety, neurotic hypochondriac, Stalin was a bundle of appalling contradictions.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026

Definition of vainglorious

Adjective

Éanna Hardwicke, meanwhile, is similarly impressive as the hothead whose national pride manifests itself in the most egotistical ways.

— Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 26 June 2026
Is this the same guy who Real Madrid fans think is too posh to press, too egotistical to work for his team-mates, too distracted by fame to bleed for the shirt?

— Matt Slater, New York Times, 23 June 2026

Definition of egotistic

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Defense witnesses pointed to boastful teens, fireworks-like flashes and uncertain ignition points, with an expert arguing that fireworks were the likely cause and that prosecutors lack proof that a lighter sparked the blaze.

— Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026
Chatter about Azik’s famous delens abounds, as does boastful talk about how Monica Bellucci’s family hails from the same part of Nalchik.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026

Definition of boastful

Adjective

Historian Sandgruber describes how Alois Hitler wrote his 1895 letters in a deeply smug, anti-clerical manner that overestimated his abilities.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026
Li at times plays Cola with a smug impetuousness that belies her naivety about this world to a satisfying degree.

— Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 17 June 2026

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