1. overweening - Noun
2. overweening - Adjective
3. overweening - Verb
4. overweening - Adjective Satellite
Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
Conceit; arrogance.
Source: Webster's dictionaryConceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. Henry Ward Beecher
The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules. Hunter S. Thompson
So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition. Albert Jay Nock
Where Reagan channeled disenchantment with overweening government, Obama symbolized America's transformation into a multiracial country. Jacob Weisberg
When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance. Jeffrey Kluger
Modern man no longer regards Nature as being in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. Aldous Huxley