Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
Adjective
- Unduly confident;
arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
- She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she's overweening.
- Exaggerated, excessive.
Derived terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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