Overweening

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overweening \O`ver*ween"ing\, n.
     Conceit; arrogance. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Overweening \O`ver*ween"ing\, a.
     Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited. --
     {O`ver*ween"ingly}, adv. --Milton. -- {O`ver*ween"ing*ness},
     n.
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           The conceits of warmed or overweening brain. --Locke.
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           Here's an overweening rogue.             --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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