Pronunciations (2)
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/əʊvəˈwiːnɪŋ/
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/oʊvɚˈwinɪŋ/
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Adjective
Unduly confident; (sometimes also) arrogant.
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She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she’s overweening.
Heere's an ouer-weening rogue.
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The offer freely given was freely accepted, this gentleman already standing high in their opinion from his conduct to the Count; nor could they doubt that Lady Anne had lost herself many years of pleasant, and probably profitable intercourse with him, from her own acrimony of temper and overweening pride of manners;[…]
No success rendered him overweening and no disaster was ever known to stagger his firmness.
The Senate was displaying an overweening hauteur as if it were the government.
The Valley prizes overweening ambition but expects it to be “rifle-focussed” on making the world’s best houseboat-rental platform or Cognac-delivery service.
While they ultimately came to the same conclusion, the pre-emptive tweet made it harder to rebut the court's judgment that they were “supine servants of an overweening master”.
Who could miss this real-life king’s deft allusion to the importunities of the overweening pseudo-king in the White House? Democrats certainly didn’t. They stood and cheered.
Exaggerated, excessive.
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The idea that an overweening federal government is a threat to both freedom and equality (not to mention prosperity) goes back to Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry and some other fairly respectable personages.
Noun
An excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s abilities; presumption, arrogance.
Usage- Archaic
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Let us suppresse this over-weening [translating cuider], the first foundation of the tyrannie of the wicked spirit[…].
Adjective
unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
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extravagant praise
exuberant compliments
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overweening ambition
overweening greed
presumptuously arrogant
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had a witty but overweening manner