Definitions for hubris

hubris hu·bris

Spelling: [hyoo-bris, hoo-]
IPA: /ˈhyu brɪs, ˈhu-/

Hubris is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in hubris (bhirsu).

Definitions for hubris

noun

  1. excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.

Origin of hubris

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

Examples for hubris

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

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

But genuine strength, as Tolstoy understood so well, comes from humility, not hubris.

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

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.

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

But he was also a flesh and blood man whose life was full of humor, hubris and his own share of heartbreak.

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

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

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

Word Value for hubris
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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