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Definition of Overweening
1. Adjective. Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings. "Overweening greed"
Similar to: Unrestrained
Derivative terms: Excessiveness, Extravagance
2. Adjective. Presumptuously arrogant. "Getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"
Definition of Overweening
1. a. Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
2. n. Conceit; arrogance.
Definition of Overweening
1. Adjective. Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited. ¹
2. Adjective. Exaggerated, excessive. ¹
3. Noun. (rare) An excessively high opinion of oneself or one's abilities; presumption, arrogance. ¹
4. Verb. (present participle of overween) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overweening
1. overween [v] - See also: overween
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overweening
Literary usage of Overweening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1863)
"overweening Confidence of the South. must return here to the narrative of the
campaign in Virginia. The campaign in the western portion of the State was ..."
2. Southern History of the Great Civil War in the United States by Edward Alfred Pollard (1863)
".overweening Confidence of the South. , We must return here to the narrative of
the campaign in Virginia. The campaign in the Western portion of the State ..."
3. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... ominous clouding of the water—Something the world has never known—overweening
security—An admonition not to climb too high—How vice may become virtue by ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"Sometimes, however, his prodigality of antithesis fatigues; an overweening vanity
and apish ostentation often peep out from beneath a thin screen of ..."
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