overweening
/əʊvəˈwiːnɪŋ
/adjective
Showing excessive confidence or pride: overweening ambition...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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 ...- 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.
- ‘Our support for a Conservative victory - which we concede is unlikely - is superseded by an even greater imperative: to diminish the power of an overweeningly arrogant Prime Minister and restore a healthy democracy to this country.’
- 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.
overweeningness
Rhymes
- Lanarkshire
- Lancashire
- Lancashire hotpot
- Lancaster
- Lancaster, Burt
- Lancaster, Duchy of
- Lancaster House Agreement
- Lancaster, House of
- Lancastrian
- lance
- lance bombardier
- lance corporal
- lancejack
- lancelet
- Lancelot
- lanceolate
- lancer
- lance sergeant
- lancet
- lancet arch
- lancet clock
- lanceted
- lancetfish
- Borodin, Aleksandr
- Borodino, Battle of