overweening

Meanings

Plural: overweenings

Adjective Satellite

• unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
  • "overweening ambition"
  • "overweening greed"
• presumptuously arrogant; ; - S.V.Benet; - NY Times
  • "had a witty but overweening manner"
  • "no idea how overweening he would be"

Adj

• Unduly confident; arrogant.
• Exaggerated, excessive.

Noun

• An excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s abilities; presumption, arrogance.

Verb

• present participle and gerund of overween

Synonyms

airy, arrogant, authoritarian, big-headed, biggity, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, excessive, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, immoderate, imperious, inflated, insolent, intemperate, la-di-da, lavish, nimious, obscene, ostentatious, overbearing, overmuch, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, prodigal, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain, wanton

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