overweening
11overweening — 1. adjective a) Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited. She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly shes overweening. b) Exaggerated, excessive. 2 …
12overweening — o|ver|ween|ing [ˌəuvəˈwi:nıŋ US ˌouvər ] adj formal [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: overween to be too confident (14 19 centuries), from ween to think, believe (11 20 centuries), from Old English wenan] too proud and confident used to show disapproval …
13overweening — Arrogant or presumptuous expectations are overweening ones. There is no word overweaning …
14overweening — Arrogant or presumptuous expectations are overweening ones. There is no word overweaning …
15overweening — adjective formal too proud and confident; arrogant: overweening vanity overweeningly adverb …
16overweening — adjective that overweening attitude of his makes my skin crawl Syn: overconfident, conceited, cocksure, cocky, smug, haughty, supercilious, lofty, patronizing, arrogant, proud, vain, self important, imperious, overbearing; informal high and… …
17overweening — UK [ˌəʊvə(r)ˈwiːnɪŋ] / US [ˌoʊvərˈwɪnɪŋ] adjective formal used for describing a bad quality that someone has which makes them very unpleasant overweening pride …
18overweening — o•ver•ween•ing [[t]ˈoʊ vərˈwi nɪŋ[/t]] adj. 1) presumptuously conceited, overconfident, or proud 2) exaggerated; excessive: overweening pride[/ex] • Etymology: 1300–50; ME overweninde, prob. as a calque of OFsurcuidant; see over , ween… …
19overweening — adjective Etymology: Middle English overwening, present participle of overwenen to be arrogant, from over + wenen to ween Date: 14th century 1. arrogant, presumptuous 2. immoderate, exaggerated • overweeningly adverb …
20overweening — Synonyms 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 …