overweening

4 definitions found

overweening - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Overweening \O`ver*ween"ing\, n.
     Conceit; arrogance. --Milton.
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  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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overweening - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  overweening
      adj 1: unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings;
             "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments";
             "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed" [syn:
             excessive, extravagant, exuberant, overweening]
      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: overweening, uppity]

overweening - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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