overweening
adjective · noun · verbB2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Unduly confident; (sometimes also) arrogant.
She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she’s overweening.
Đồng nghĩa: overconfident, presumptuous, conceited, airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, glorious, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high-handed, high-hat, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, hubristical, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, orgulous, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain
- 2.
Exaggerated, excessive.
Đồng nghĩa: immoderate, unrestrained, devilish, excessive, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, intemperate, lavish, nimious, obscene, overmuch, overweening, over the top, prodigal, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, wanton
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)(now rare) An excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s abilities; presumption, arrogance.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(form of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of overween
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From Middle English overweninge, equivalent to overween + -ing. Cognate with obsolete overwanig, overwaand (presumptuous; cocky; conceited).