Definition of overweening in English:

overweening

adjective əʊvəˈwiːnɪŋˌoʊvərˈwinɪŋ

Showing excessive confidence or pride.
overweening ambition
Example sentencesExamples
- He stated in a haunted, whispered voice and Ikeda nearly apologized for bringing it up, but his overweening pride would not allow it.
- The answer is clear - his overweening ambition.
- His best qualification for the job was his overweening ambition, nothing else.
- We organised races, and spurred by overweening confidence, tested the crafts' stability by standing on the seats and swaying until tipped into the cold water.
- Elizabeth indignantly rejects him, on the grounds of his overweening pride, the part he has played in separating Jane from Bingley, and his alleged treatment of Wickham.
- A legal system needs multiple lines of defense against miscarriages of justice, and historically the jury has had few rivals as a way of protecting defendants from overweening official power.
- The overweening arrogance of the Supreme Court.
- It was an age of excess, of overweening ambition, of greed, and phoniness, and sucking up, and the glorification of strange, obnoxious, preening, uninteresting people.
- The actor conveys at the same instant the character's overweening pride, as well as an element of self-knowledge, which borders on self-disgust.
- Although he was an academic, he did not appear to have the arrogance and overweening sense of self-importance that some of his kind possess.
- People soon became disillusioned with the more hard-edged forms of modernism, and aghast at the overweening urge to control demonstrated by totalitarian regimes from the thirties to the fifties.
- But if she wasn't a go-getting 11-year old, she is making up for it at 29 with an overweening ambition to grow her company.
- It is the overweening ambition of the theory to explain or explain away rational thought, including philosophy.
- The redemption of Judas, the challenges of pusillanimous leadership and the sin of overweening arrogance are handled deftly in this timeless tale.
- There, culture is seen as synonymous with the country's national identity, with its almost arrogant self-belief, and with an overweening pride in its own achievements.
- Later, desiring heaven, he achieves it, only to be thrown down from there because of his overweening pride in his merit.
- For the medieval period, especially the Renaissance, is replete with examples of overweening pride in the human place in the cosmos.
- The notion itself has an overweening hubris to it.
- They do not look for, do not see, and do not achieve insight into their fatal flaws - arrogance, overweening pride, hypocrisy, ineptitude, and, increasingly, irrelevance.
- To those I would add presumptuous, imperious, overweening and authoritarian.
Synonyms
overconfident, conceited, cocksure, cocky, smug, haughty, supercilious, disdainful, lofty, patronizing, arrogant, proud, vain, vainglorious, self-important, egotistical, high-handed, magisterial, cavalier, imperious, domineering, dictatorial, overbearing, presumptuous, lordly, peremptory, pompous, officious, blustering, boastful, self-assertive, opinionated, bold, forward, insolent
informal high and mighty, throwing one's weight about/around, uppish
rare hubristic

Derivatives

overweeningly

adverb ˌəʊvəˈwiːnɪŋliˌoʊvərˈwinɪŋli

‘Our support for a Conservative victory - which we concede is unlikely - is superseded by an even greater imperative: to diminish the power of an overweeningly arrogant Prime Minister and restore a healthy democracy to this country.’
Example sentencesExamples
- At size 8, I had to admit, I was so self-conscious (and secretly, overweeningly proud of it) that often that was all I was.
- He seemed alarmingly and repugnantly, overweeningly, to believe that he was a great poet; so he thought he could pretty well do what he liked.

overweeningness

noun

Rhymes

greening, leaning, meaning, screening, spring-cleaning

Definition of overweening in US English:

overweening

adjectiveˌōvərˈwēniNGˌoʊvərˈwinɪŋ

Showing excessive confidence or pride.
overweening ambition
Example sentencesExamples
- People soon became disillusioned with the more hard-edged forms of modernism, and aghast at the overweening urge to control demonstrated by totalitarian regimes from the thirties to the fifties.
- We organised races, and spurred by overweening confidence, tested the crafts' stability by standing on the seats and swaying until tipped into the cold water.
- His best qualification for the job was his overweening ambition, nothing else.
- It was an age of excess, of overweening ambition, of greed, and phoniness, and sucking up, and the glorification of strange, obnoxious, preening, uninteresting people.
- The answer is clear - his overweening ambition.
- But if she wasn't a go-getting 11-year old, she is making up for it at 29 with an overweening ambition to grow her company.
- It is the overweening ambition of the theory to explain or explain away rational thought, including philosophy.
- The redemption of Judas, the challenges of pusillanimous leadership and the sin of overweening arrogance are handled deftly in this timeless tale.
- The actor conveys at the same instant the character's overweening pride, as well as an element of self-knowledge, which borders on self-disgust.
- Elizabeth indignantly rejects him, on the grounds of his overweening pride, the part he has played in separating Jane from Bingley, and his alleged treatment of Wickham.
- A legal system needs multiple lines of defense against miscarriages of justice, and historically the jury has had few rivals as a way of protecting defendants from overweening official power.
- There, culture is seen as synonymous with the country's national identity, with its almost arrogant self-belief, and with an overweening pride in its own achievements.
- Although he was an academic, he did not appear to have the arrogance and overweening sense of self-importance that some of his kind possess.
- He stated in a haunted, whispered voice and Ikeda nearly apologized for bringing it up, but his overweening pride would not allow it.
- For the medieval period, especially the Renaissance, is replete with examples of overweening pride in the human place in the cosmos.
- The notion itself has an overweening hubris to it.
- They do not look for, do not see, and do not achieve insight into their fatal flaws - arrogance, overweening pride, hypocrisy, ineptitude, and, increasingly, irrelevance.
- To those I would add presumptuous, imperious, overweening and authoritarian.
- Later, desiring heaven, he achieves it, only to be thrown down from there because of his overweening pride in his merit.
- The overweening arrogance of the Supreme Court.
Synonyms
overconfident, conceited, cocksure, cocky, smug, haughty, supercilious, disdainful, lofty, patronizing, arrogant, proud, vain, vainglorious, self-important, egotistical, high-handed, magisterial, cavalier, imperious, domineering, dictatorial, overbearing, presumptuous, lordly, peremptory, pompous, officious, blustering, boastful, self-assertive, opinionated, bold, forward, insolent

单词	overweening
释义	Definition of overweening in English: overweening adjective əʊvəˈwiːnɪŋˌoʊvərˈwinɪŋ Showing excessive confidence or pride. overweening ambition Example sentencesExamples He stated in a haunted, whispered voice and Ikeda nearly apologized for bringing it up, but his overweening pride would not allow it. The answer is clear - his overweening ambition. His best qualification for the job was his overweening ambition, nothing else. We organised races, and spurred by overweening confidence, tested the crafts' stability by standing on the seats and swaying until tipped into the cold water. Elizabeth indignantly rejects him, on the grounds of his overweening pride, the part he has played in separating Jane from Bingley, and his alleged treatment of Wickham. A legal system needs multiple lines of defense against miscarriages of justice, and historically the jury has had few rivals as a way of protecting defendants from overweening official power. The overweening arrogance of the Supreme Court. It was an age of excess, of overweening ambition, of greed, and phoniness, and sucking up, and the glorification of strange, obnoxious, preening, uninteresting people. The actor conveys at the same instant the character's overweening pride, as well as an element of self-knowledge, which borders on self-disgust. Although he was an academic, he did not appear to have the arrogance and overweening sense of self-importance that some of his kind possess. People soon became disillusioned with the more hard-edged forms of modernism, and aghast at the overweening urge to control demonstrated by totalitarian regimes from the thirties to the fifties. But if she wasn't a go-getting 11-year old, she is making up for it at 29 with an overweening ambition to grow her company. It is the overweening ambition of the theory to explain or explain away rational thought, including philosophy. The redemption of Judas, the challenges of pusillanimous leadership and the sin of overweening arrogance are handled deftly in this timeless tale. There, culture is seen as synonymous with the country's national identity, with its almost arrogant self-belief, and with an overweening pride in its own achievements. Later, desiring heaven, he achieves it, only to be thrown down from there because of his overweening pride in his merit. For the medieval period, especially the Renaissance, is replete with examples of overweening pride in the human place in the cosmos. The notion itself has an overweening hubris to it. They do not look for, do not see, and do not achieve insight into their fatal flaws - arrogance, overweening pride, hypocrisy, ineptitude, and, increasingly, irrelevance. To those I would add presumptuous, imperious, overweening and authoritarian. Synonyms overconfident, conceited, cocksure, cocky, smug, haughty, supercilious, disdainful, lofty, patronizing, arrogant, proud, vain, vainglorious, self-important, egotistical, high-handed, magisterial, cavalier, imperious, domineering, dictatorial, overbearing, presumptuous, lordly, peremptory, pompous, officious, blustering, boastful, self-assertive, opinionated, bold, forward, insolent informal high and mighty, throwing one's weight about/around, uppish rare hubristic Derivatives overweeningly adverb ˌəʊvəˈwiːnɪŋliˌoʊvərˈwinɪŋli ‘Our support for a Conservative victory - which we concede is unlikely - is superseded by an even greater imperative: to diminish the power of an overweeningly arrogant Prime Minister and restore a healthy democracy to this country.’ Example sentencesExamples At size 8, I had to admit, I was so self-conscious (and secretly, overweeningly proud of it) that often that was all I was. He seemed alarmingly and repugnantly, overweeningly, to believe that he was a great poet; so he thought he could pretty well do what he liked. overweeningness noun Rhymes greening, leaning, meaning, screening, spring-cleaning Definition of overweening in US English: overweening adjectiveˌōvərˈwēniNGˌoʊvərˈwinɪŋ Showing excessive confidence or pride. overweening ambition Example sentencesExamples People soon became disillusioned with the more hard-edged forms of modernism, and aghast at the overweening urge to control demonstrated by totalitarian regimes from the thirties to the fifties. We organised races, and spurred by overweening confidence, tested the crafts' stability by standing on the seats and swaying until tipped into the cold water. His best qualification for the job was his overweening ambition, nothing else. It was an age of excess, of overweening ambition, of greed, and phoniness, and sucking up, and the glorification of strange, obnoxious, preening, uninteresting people. The answer is clear - his overweening ambition. But if she wasn't a go-getting 11-year old, she is making up for it at 29 with an overweening ambition to grow her company. It is the overweening ambition of the theory to explain or explain away rational thought, including philosophy. The redemption of Judas, the challenges of pusillanimous leadership and the sin of overweening arrogance are handled deftly in this timeless tale. The actor conveys at the same instant the character's overweening pride, as well as an element of self-knowledge, which borders on self-disgust. Elizabeth indignantly rejects him, on the grounds of his overweening pride, the part he has played in separating Jane from Bingley, and his alleged treatment of Wickham. A legal system needs multiple lines of defense against miscarriages of justice, and historically the jury has had few rivals as a way of protecting defendants from overweening official power. There, culture is seen as synonymous with the country's national identity, with its almost arrogant self-belief, and with an overweening pride in its own achievements. Although he was an academic, he did not appear to have the arrogance and overweening sense of self-importance that some of his kind possess. He stated in a haunted, whispered voice and Ikeda nearly apologized for bringing it up, but his overweening pride would not allow it. For the medieval period, especially the Renaissance, is replete with examples of overweening pride in the human place in the cosmos. The notion itself has an overweening hubris to it. They do not look for, do not see, and do not achieve insight into their fatal flaws - arrogance, overweening pride, hypocrisy, ineptitude, and, increasingly, irrelevance. To those I would add presumptuous, imperious, overweening and authoritarian. Later, desiring heaven, he achieves it, only to be thrown down from there because of his overweening pride in his merit. The overweening arrogance of the Supreme Court. Synonyms overconfident, conceited, cocksure, cocky, smug, haughty, supercilious, disdainful, lofty, patronizing, arrogant, proud, vain, vainglorious, self-important, egotistical, high-handed, magisterial, cavalier, imperious, domineering, dictatorial, overbearing, presumptuous, lordly, peremptory, pompous, officious, blustering, boastful, self-assertive, opinionated, bold, forward, insolent
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