Definition for Overweening:

• That thinks too highly; conceited; vain.

Synonyms for Overweening:

• adj.

  •cocky (adjective)
  • more hotdogger,
  • most hotdogger.
  •cocky/cocksure (adjective)
  • overweening,
  • self-confident,
  • sure,
  • nervy,
  • positive,
  • confident,
  • wise guy,
  • swollen-headed,
  • smarty,
  • smart aleck,
  • swaggering,
  • bumptious,
  • smarty pants,
  • know-it-all,
  • hubristic,
  • certain.
  •conceited (adjective)
  • windbag,
  • vainglorious,
  • bigheaded,
  • immodest,
  • self-important,
  • ham,
  • gall,
  • smart-alecky,
  • puffed up,
  • phony,
  • narcissistic,
  • cocky,
  • snotty,
  • big talking.
  •egotistical (adjective)
  • vain.
  •forward (adjective)
  • brazen,
  • impudent,
  • pushing,
  • bold,
  • fresh,
  • audacious,
  • smart,
  • self-assertive,
  • wise,
  • pert,
  • rude,
  • aggressive,
  • Presuming,
  • bantam,
  • Familiar,
  • assuming.
  •overbearing (adjective)
  • officious,
  • preponderant,
  • sovereign,
  • ascendant,
  • dogmatic,
  • regnant,
  • paramount,
  • prevalent,
  • stuffy,
  • bossy,
  • predominant,
  • magisterial.
  •overconfident (adjective)
  • careless,
  • reckless,
  • heading for a fall,
  • cocksure,
  • foolhardy,
  • over-confident,
  • heedless,
  • rash.
  •overreaching (adjective)
  • vaulting.
  •overweening (adjective)
  • egotistical,
  • pushy,
  • brash,
  • pompous,
  • presumptuous.
  •presumptuous (adjective)
  • pretentious,
  • smug,
  • contumelious,
  • self-assured,
  • self-satisfied.
  •prideful (adjective)
  • more biggety,
  • on an ego trip,
  • coldshoulder,
  • cold-shoulder,
  • most coldshoulder,
  • most cold shoulder,
  • on ones high horse,
  • on one's high horse,
  • most bragging,
  • on ego trip,
  • more cold-shoulder,
  • biggety,
  • on one high horse,
  • more bragging,
  • most cold-shoulder,
  • most biggety,
  • more coldshoulder,
  • more cold shoulder.
  •vain (adjective)
  • inflated,
  • boastful,
  • ostentatious,
  • pleased with oneself,
  • big-headed,
  • egoistic.
  •vaulting (adjective)
  • highflown,
  • more opportunistic,
  • high flown,
  • most opportunistic.

• n.

  •
  • born,
  • classy,
  • badass,
  • constitutionally,
  • adaptive,
  • flawed,
  • Clingy,
  • babyish,
  • flexible,
  • addictive.
  •
  • insolent,
  • proud,
  • lofty,
  • patronizing,
  • attitude,
  • superior,
  • egocentric.
  •overweening (noun)
  • unrestrained.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • egotistic,
  • high-and-mighty.

Antonyms for Overweening:

• adj.

  • cocky/cocksure
    uncertain, unsure, humble, unself-confident.
  • conceited
    meek, timid, diffident, self-conscious, shy.
  • forward
    reserved.
  • imperious
    obedient, fawning, servile, weak, subservient, helpless.
  • overbearing
    kind, nice.
  • overconfident
    cautious, pessimistic.
  • overweening
    modest, unassuming.
  • Other antonyms:
    middling, deferential, sheepish, acquiescent, passive, unobtrusive, unaggressive, lowly, realistic, cringing, minimal, moderate, bashful, submissive, quiet, reasonable, overmodest, subdued, inadequate, cowering, shrinking, restrained, retiring, mousy, deficient, Self-reproving, temperate, unassertive, minimum, yielding, introverted, compliant, insufficient.

Overweening Sentence Examples:

• By right I should be spared thy overweening pride.

• " I should be without all fear," quoth the noble dame, " that any one would take his life in the fray, if he would not follow his overweening mood; then the bold knight and a good were safe."