hubris

[ hyoo-bris, hoo- ]

noun

1. excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.

hubris

/ ˈhjuːbrɪs /

noun

1. pride or arrogance
2. (in Greek tragedy) an excess of ambition, pride, etc, ultimately causing the transgressor's ruin

Derived Forms

• huˈbristic, adjective

Other Words From

• hu·bristic adjective
• nonhu·bristic adjective
• unhu·bristic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of hubris¹

First recorded in 1880–85, hubris is from the Greek word hýbris insolence

Word History and Origins

Origin of hubris¹

C19: from Greek

Example Sentences

He sees that apathy and hubris activated Flint’s public health crisis in 2014 and fuel it to this day.

From Washington Post

It takes a lot of hubris to risk your solvency on the assumption rates stay unusually low forever.

From Fortune

In an agency long known for its competence, hubris became the nemesis that could not be overcome.

From Washington Post

I maintained that hubris until October of 2017, when my daughter was born.

From Outside Online

Heading off hubris was one of the commission’s main concerns, Lifton said.

From Science News

He won re-election twice as governor of New York, and had the hubris to run for a fourth term before being defeated in 1994.

From The Daily Beast

What were his weaknesses as a military commander: was it hubris?

From The Daily Beast

The hubris of that position did so much to create and compound these problems.

From The Daily Beast

Can Clinton help find the elusive middle ground in American foreign policy between the hubris of Bush and the reluctance of Obama?

From The Daily Beast

Downes disparages this as hubris, “man too big for his boots.”

From The Daily Beast

Or was even as noble a mind as his not proof against the overweening hubris to which a despotic genius has so often succumbed?

From Project Gutenberg

Every year He waxes too strong and commits "Hubris," and such sin has its proper punishment.

From Project Gutenberg

Each Year arrives, waxes great, commits the sin of Hubris, and then is slain.

From Project Gutenberg

Her hubris was in part, at all events, the result of ignorance.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• audacity
• chutzpah
• cockiness
• pretension
• vanity