Overweening

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Presumptuously arrogant; overbearing: had a witty but overweening manner about him.
  • adj. Excessive; immoderate: overweening ambition.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
  • adj. Exaggerated, excessive.
  • n. An excessively high opinion of oneself or one's abilities; presumption, arrogance.
  • v. Present participle of overween.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
  • n. Conceit; arrogance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Presumption; arrogance.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
  • adj. presumptuously arrogant
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    arrogant    presumptuous    conceited    conceit    arrogance   
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