hubrid
English
Etymology
From hubris + -id (suffix forming adjectives). Hubris is a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris, “insolence, sexual outrage”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhjuːbɹɪd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhjubɹɪd/
- Hyphenation: hu‧brid
Adjective
hubrid (comparative more hubrid, superlative most hubrid)
- (rare) Synonym of hubristic (“overly arrogant or proud, or presumptuous, especially in a disdainful or rude manner”).
- 1991, Stanley Enlkin, The MacGuffin, Linden Press, page 173:
- Showing off for him, for all of them, not out of hubris — hubris? him? what did he have to be hubrid about?
- 2011, Constancio Sulapas Asumen, Flirting with Misadventures: Escapades of an Exotic Life, Friesen Press, page 143:
- Of calculatingly unprincipled / Surrender to hubrid incompetence
- 1991, Stanley Enlkin, The MacGuffin, Linden Press, page 173:
Translations
synonym of hubristic — see hubristic