Synonyms for cocky
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
arrogant, conceited, overconfident, brash, stuck-up, egotistical, self-important, haughty, insolent, disdainful, chesty informal, pert, vain, inflated, puffed up, sauce-y, full of oneself, smug, pompous, presumptuous, uppity, overweening, snooty slang informal
Definitions
- adj. 1
Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.
Related words
- Other spellings
- cockey cockie
Example sentences
- arrogant I don't need the validation of an arrogant person.
- brash I don't like his brash way of talking.
- conceited Mary told Tom that she thought John was conceited.
- overconfident You should be careful not to become overconfident.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| cocky | rising | |
| arrogant | rising | |
| brash | rising | |
| conceited | rising | |
| overconfident | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- vain1, smug1, pert1
- 5 letters
- brash1
- 6 letters
- uppity3, snooty2, chesty
- 7 letters
- pompous2, haughty2
- 8 letters
- arrogant3, inflated3, insolent3
- 9 letters
- conceited3
- 10 letters
- disdainful3
- 11 letters
- egotistical5, overweening
- 12 letters
- presumptuous4
- 13 letters
- overconfident5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (uppity3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- suffisant
- Italiano
- sufficiente
- Deutsch
- genügend
- Català
- suficient