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overweening
adjective
(o-ver-ween-ing)
unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
Synonyms:
excessive
,
extravagant
,
exuberant
,
Examples:
Overweening ambition.
Overweening greed.
overweening
adjective
(o-ver-ween-ing)
presumptuously arrogant
Synonyms:
uppity
,
Examples:
Had a witty but overweening manner.
No idea how overweening he would be.
Words Related to
overweening
!
unrestrained
,
uppity
,
excessive
,
extravagant
,
exuberant
,
immodest
,
hubristic
,
tyrannical
,
vainglorious
,
arrogant
,
paternalistic
,
haughty
,
rapacious
,
pompous
,
dictatorial
,
avaricious
,
imperialistic
,
egocentric
,
unreasoning
,
effete
,
unaccountable
,
hegemonic
,
immoderate
,
sanctimonious
,
disdainful
,
chauvinistic
,
overbearing
,
overween
,
statist
,
venal
,
oligarchical
,
unthinking
,
unbridled
,
egotistic
,
blinkered
,
illiberal
,
feckless
,
aggrandizing
,
unquestioning
,
censorial
,
imperial
,
domineering
,
omnipotent
,
proprietorial
,
obsequious
,
censorious
,
bourgeois
,
servile
,
hobbesian
,
unappeasable
,
monomaniacal
,
oppressive
,
plutocratic
,
perfervid
,
heedless
,
fatuous
,
enfeebling
,
uptightness
,
brusk
,
dirigiste
,
amoral
,
atavistic
,
solipsistic
,
delusory
,
capitalistic
,
pettifogging
,
mulish
,
stultifying
,
ineradicable
,
abasement
,
reified
,
puritanical
,
subservient
,
myopic
,
unreasoned
,
collectivist
,
unwonted
,
onanistic
,
manichean
,
reflexive
,
antipathetic
,
emersonian
,
anomic
,
megalomanic
,
pernicious
,
malfeasant
,
absolutist
,
maleficent
,
sycophantic
,
unfettered
,
benthamite
,
bumptious
,
unprogressive
,
puritan
,
sheeplike
,
ahistorical
,
simpleminded
,
conscienceless
,
untrammeled
,
timorous
,
overweening
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