overweening

Meaning of overweening

adjective
  1. showing excessive confidence or pride.
    overweening ambition

Information about overweening

  • It is an adjective.
  • The plural form of overweening is: overweenings.
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Hyphenation of overweening

over-ween-ing

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • overweening is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

overweening synonyms

Meaning excessive:

excessive, extravagant, exuberant

Meaning uppity:

uppity

Meaning excessively confident:

overconfident

Meaning excessively proud of oneself; vain:

conceited

Meaning confident in an excessive or arrogant way:

cocksure

Meaning conceited or confident in a bold or cheeky way:

cocky

Meaning having or showing an excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements:

smug

Meaning arrogantly superior and disdainful:

haughty

Meaning behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others:

supercilious

Meaning showing contempt or lack of respect:

disdainful

Meaning haughty and aloof:

lofty

Meaning apparently kind or helpful but betraying a feeling of superiority; condescending:

patronizing

Meaning having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities:

arrogant

Meaning conscious of one's own dignity:

proud

Meaning having or showing an excessively high opinion of one's appearance, abilities, or worth:

vain

Meaning excessively proud of oneself or one's achievements; overly vain:

vainglorious

Meaning excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself; self-centred:

egotistical

Meaning domineering; dictatorial:

magisterial

Meaning showing a lack of proper concern; offhand:

cavalier

Meaning arrogant and domineering:

imperious

Meaning asserting one's will over another in an arrogant way:

domineering

Meaning having or showing an autocratic manner:

dictatorial

Meaning unpleasantly overpowering:

overbearing

Meaning (of a person or their behaviour) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate:

presumptuous

Meaning of, characteristic of, or suitable for a lord:

lordly

Meaning insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way:

peremptory

Meaning affectedly grand, solemn, or self-important:

pompous

Meaning assertive of authority in a domineering way, especially with regard to trivial matters:

officious

Meaning (of a storm, wind, or rain) blowing or beating fiercely and noisily:

blustering

Meaning showing excessive pride and self-satisfaction in one's achievements, possessions, or abilities:

boastful

Meaning characterized by conceited assertiveness and dogmatism:

opinionated

Meaning (of a person, action, or idea) showing a willingness to take risks; confident and courageous:

bold

Meaning (of a person) bold or overfamiliar in manner:

forward

Meaning showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect:

insolent

Meaning arrogantly self-assertive:

uppish

Meaning excessively proud or self-confident:

hubristic

overweening antonyms

Meaning unassuming in the estimation of one's abilities or achievements:

modest

Meaning modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence:

diffident

Meaning not pretentious or arrogant; modest:

unassuming

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