Overweening

Definition: Overweening

Overweening

Adjective

1. Unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed".

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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "overweening" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Overweening

Insolence

Adjective: insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown.

Pride

Supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant; unblushing.

Rashness

Hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained; headlong, headstrong; breakneck; foolhardy; harebrained; precipitate, impulsive. overconfident, overweening; venturesome, venturous; adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier; janty, jaunty, free and easy.

Redundancy

Adjective: redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal; exorbitant; overweening; extravagant; overcharged; Verb: supersaturated, drenched, overflowing; running over, running to waste, running down.

Vanity

Have too high an opinion of oneself, have an overweening opinion of oneself, have too high an opinion of one's talents; blind oneself as to one's own merit; not think small beer of oneself, not think vin ordinaire of oneself; put oneself forward; fish for compliments; give oneself airs; (assume); boast.

Adjective: vain, proud as a peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward; vainglorious, high-flown; ostentatious; puffed up, inflated, flushed.

Crosswords: Overweening

Oh. Glad you're here to protect me from overweening pride (Shannon's Deal; writing credit: David Greenwalt)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i vetëdijshëm (aware, conscientious, conscious, opinionated, reliant), i sigurt në vetvete (self confident, self-reliant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفرط (exaggerated, excess, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, frightful, immoderate, intemperate, intolerable, overabundant, overmuch, super, superabundant, superfluous, superlative, too much, unconscionable, undue, unqualified, unreasonable, unrestrained), ‏مغرور (allured, arrogant, cocky, conceited, dazzled, deceived, deluded, fooled, haughty, lured, misled, popinjay, proud, self-conceited, self-important, snobbish, vain, vainglorious), ‏متغطرس (arrogant, conceited, haughty, imperious, insolent, lofty, lordly, overbearing, overpeopled, overproud, presuming, presumptuous, proud, pushy, snooty, supercilious), ‏متعجرف (arrogant, cavalier, conceited, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, overproud, presuming, presumptuous, puffed up, puffy, stuffy, supercilious, swelling), ‏متجاوز الحد (transcendent), ‏مزهو بنفسه, ‏معجب بنفسه (conceited, overbearing, self-important, smug, vain), ‏صلف (insolent, smugness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

самонадеян (assuming, assumptive, cocksy, confident, coxy, presuming), самомнителен (bumptious, cocky, conceited, self sufficient, swanky, swashbuckling, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), високомерен (airy, cavalier, domineering, grand, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, lordly, proud, snooty, snuffy, stiff necked, top-lofty), надменен (airy, aloof, arrogant, assuming, assumptive, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, haughty, high, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, offhand, offish, overbearing, prideful, proud, proud-stomached, remote, scornful, stand offish, stiff, stuck up, sublime, supercilious, superior, top-lofty, uppish). (various references)

Czech

samolibý (self-satisfied, smug), nafoukaný (bigheaded, bumptious, cocksy, cocky, stuck up). (various references)

Farsi 

بسیارمغرور. (various references)

French

outrecuidant, démesuré. (various references)

German

anmaßend (arrogant, arroganting, arrogantly, assuming, bumptious, domineering, haughty, high handed, hubristic, imperious, overbearing, presumptuous, pretentious), eingebildet (arrogant, big-headed, cockily, cocky, conceited, conceitedly, imaginary, imagined, make believe, prig, proud, snotty, vain, vainly, visionary). (various references)

Greek 

έπαρση (arrogance, conceit, haughtiness, overweeningness, pride, self-conceit), υπερφίαλοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מתרברב (bumptious, popinjay, vain), מת� פח, ימר� י (ambitious, highfaluting, pretentious), י�"יר (arrogant, conceited, haughty, high and mighty, pompous, popinjay, presumptuous, snob, snooty, snotty, supercilious, swollen). (various references)

Hungarian

fennhéjazó (arrogant), elbizakodott (cock-sure, consequential, perky, pretentious, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-confident, self-important, stuck-up, uppity). (various references)

Italian

presuntuoso (arrogant, assuming, assumptive, big-headed, bumptious, conceited, confident, consequential, jackanapes, opinionated, presumptuous, puppyish, self-righteous, uppish, uppity), arrogante (arrogant, assumptive, brash, haughty, overbearing). (various references)

Pig Latin

overweeningay.(various references)

Portuguese

vaidoso (cockalorum, conceited, frivolous, grand, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, proud-spirited, self-satisfied, uppish, vain, vainglorious), presunçoso (bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, presuming, presumptuous, self-confident, self-opinionated, self-sufficient, smug, snippy, uppish, upstage, vainglorious), presumido (assuming, cock-a-hoop, cockalorum, fop, immodest, presumed, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, proud, proud-spirited, self-satisfied, sidy, snooty, square-toed, swanky), enfatuado (coxcombical, foppish, infatuated, mad, pragmatical, self-satisfied, sidy). (various references)

Romanian

superior (above, best, better, chief, choice, excelsior, exclusive, first class, Guardian, high, higher, lofty, predominant, supercilious, superior, tiptop, top, upper), arogant (arrogant, arrogantly, assuming, assumptive, haughtily, haughty, high and mighty, lordly, overbearing, overbearingly, perky, pretentious, supercilious), înfumurat (arrogant, bumptious, haughty, jackanapes, opinioned, self sufficient, stuck up, uppish, vain), închipuit (conceited, false, fancied, fictitious, imaginary, notional, unreal, visional). (various references)

Russian 

самонадеянный (assuming, assumptive, confident, presuming, presumptuous, reliant, self confident, self sufficient, self-confident), чрезмерный (exacting, exceeding, excessive, exorbitant, extreme, fulsome, immoderate, inordinate, over, overextended, prodigal, profuse, prohibitive, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, unconscionable, undue), высокомерный (arrogant, assuming, cavalier, domineering, haughty, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, proud-stomached, sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuck-up, supercilious, tossy, uppity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uobraženost (conceit, coxcombry, self-assumption, self-conceit), uobražen (assuming, bighead, conceited, imaginary, presuming, pretentious, supercilious, uppish). (various references)

Spanish

presuntuoso (bumptious, cocksure, conceited, dasher, pontifical, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, upstart), arrogante (arrogant, assuming, cavalier, haughty, imperious, lordly, prideful, supercilious), altivo (arrogantly, haughtily, haughty, lordly, overbearing, supercilious). (various references)

Swedish

omåttlig (crapulent, crapulous, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, immoderate, inordinate, intemperate, outrageous, unconscionable), arrogant (arrogant, arroganta, haughty, imperious, overbearing, superior), överlägsen (lofty, pre eminent, pre-eminent, snuffy, superior, supreme, transcendent, upstage). (various references)

Turkish

mağrur (arrogant, conceited, disdainful, haughty, lofty, proud, snooty, supercilious, uppish, uppity, vainglorious), kibirli (arrogant, as proud as lucifer, assuming, bumptious, cavalier, conceited, consequential, disdainful, haughty, high-flown, hoity toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, important, lofty, lordly, pontifical, proud, Sniffy, snooty, stiff necked, stuck up, stuffy, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent). (various references)

Ukrainian

самовпевнений (arrogant, assertive, assuming, assumptive, assured, bold, bumptious, calm, chesty, cocksure, cocksy, confident, coxy, nervy, nose-wise, opinionated, opinioned, overconfident, perk, positive, presuming, reliant, self confident, self sufficient, self-assertive, self-assured, self-opinionated, upstart), зарозумілий (arrogant, audacious, contemptuous, dogmatic, dogmatical, domineering, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, lordly, overbearing, overly, proud, self-conceited, self-explanatory, self-important, snooty, stately, stiff necked, stuck up, topping, upstage), пихатий (arrogant, assuming, bloated, cavalier, cockish, conceited, foppish, haughty, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, high-hearted, hoity toity, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, portentous, puffed up, ritzy, self-important, side, solemn, vain). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vênh váo ta đây, quá tự tin (presumptuous), quá tự phụ, quá tự cao. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "overweening": overweeningly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Overweening" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: overweaning, overwheening, overwwening. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: nonviewer, veneering.

-3 letters: engineer, overween, renewing, vigneron, wingover.

-4 letters: environ, evening, greenie, ingrown, innerve, inwoven, negroni, nervine, nerving, overing, overnew, reeving, regiven, revenge, rewoven, veering, weenier, weening, wennier.

-5 letters: engine, envier, erenow, eringo, evener, ginner, govern, grieve, ignore, inwove, owning, region, regive, renege, renown, renvoi, review, rewove, roving, rowing, veiner, veneer, venine, venire, viewer.

+2 letters: overweeningly.

+3 letters: oversweetening.