Overweening \O`ver*ween"ing\, n.
Conceit; arrogance. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Overweening \O`ver*ween"ing\, a.
Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
overweening
adj 1: unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise";
"exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition";
"overweening greed" [syn: excessive, extravagant,
exuberant]
2: presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening
manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet;
"getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"-
NY Times [syn: uppity]
WordNet (r) 2.0
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "overweening":
a bit much, abandoned, arrogant, assuming, assured, audacious,
boundless, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious, cocksure, cold,
complacent, confident, consequential, contumelious, convinced,
cool, decided, determined, disdainful, egregious, enormous,
exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous,
familiar, fancy, forward, gigantic, gluttonous, high, hubristic,
hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, improvident, imprudent,
impudent, incautious, incontinent, indiscreet, injudicious,
inordinate, insolent, insulting, intemperate, monstrous, narcissan,
narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, obtrusive, out of bounds,
out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overbold, overcareless,
overconfident, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge,
overmuch, overpresumptuous, overproud, oversure, persuaded, poised,
pompous, positive, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, proud,
pushful, pushy, rash, reassured, secure, self-admiring,
self-appointed, self-approving, self-asserting, self-assertive,
self-assuming, self-assured, self-complacent, self-confident,
self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-content,
self-contented, self-delighting, self-elect, self-endeared,
self-esteeming, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important,
self-loving, self-reliant, self-respecting, self-satisfied,
self-sufficient, smug, steep, stiff, sure, temerarious, too much,
unafraid, unbridled, unchary, unconscionable, undoubting, undue,
unfaltering, unhesitating, unreasonable, unrestrained, unwary,
unwavering, uppish, uppity, vain, vainglorious, would-be
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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