overweening
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
overweening
adj 1: unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings;
"extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments";
"overweening ambition"; "overweening greed" [syn:
{excessive}, {extravagant}, {exuberant}, {overweening}]
2: presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening
manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet;
"getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY
Times [syn: {overweening}, {uppity}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "overweening":
a bit much, abandoned, arrogant, assuming, assured, audacious,
boundless, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious, cocksure, cold,
complacent, confident, consequential, contumelious, convinced,
cool, decided, determined, disdainful, egregious, enormous,
exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous,
familiar, fancy, forward, gigantic, gluttonous, high, hubristic,
hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, improvident, imprudent,
impudent, incautious, incontinent, indiscreet, injudicious,
inordinate, insolent, insulting, intemperate, monstrous, narcissan,
narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, obtrusive, out of bounds,
out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overbold, overcareless,
overconfident, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge,
overmuch, overpresumptuous, overproud, oversure, persuaded, poised,
pompous, positive, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, proud,
pushful, pushy, rash, reassured, secure, self-admiring,
self-appointed, self-approving, self-asserting, self-assertive,
self-assuming, self-assured, self-complacent, self-confident,
self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-content,
self-contented, self-delighting, self-elect, self-endeared,
self-esteeming, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important,
self-loving, self-reliant, self-respecting, self-satisfied,
self-sufficient, smug, steep, stiff, sure, temerarious, too much,
unafraid, unbridled, unchary, unconscionable, undoubting, undue,
unfaltering, unhesitating, unreasonable, unrestrained, unwary,
unwavering, uppish, uppity, vain, vainglorious, would-be
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