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overweening adjective [ əʊvəˈwiːnɪŋ ]

• showing excessive confidence or pride.
• "overweening ambition"
Similar: 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, high and mighty, throwing one's weight about, throwing one's weight around, uppish, hubristic,
Opposite: modest, diffident, unassuming,


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