Meaning and example
overbearing pride or presumption
The passage used "hubris" to mean overbearing pride or presumption.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.946 places hubris in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 83.1% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
despotUncommon
- Known by
- 83.1%
a cruel and oppressive dictator
jocularUncommon
- Known by
- 83.2%
characterized by jokes and good humor
vacuousUncommon
- Known by
- 83.4%
devoid of intelligence or thought
tacitUncommon
- Known by
- 82.7%
implied by or inferred from actions or statements
loquaciousUncommon
- Known by
- 83.5%
full of trivial conversation
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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