Synonyms of overweening

overweening

adjective

1

as in smug

having too high an opinion of oneself

a director who has little patience for overweening actors who think they are above taking advice and criticism

Synonyms & Similar Words

• smug
• arrogant
• proud
• egotistical
• vain
• vainglorious
• domineering
• egoistical
• self-important
• egotistic
• selfish
• conceited
• pompous
• egoistic
• bigheaded
• complacent
• prideful
• important
• self-satisfied
• confident
• self-conceited
• consequential
• stuck-up
• swaggering
• biggety
• boastful
• cavalier
• swellheaded
• bumptious
• bombastic
• supercilious
• assured
• haughty
• self-opinionated
• biggity
• cocky
• snobbish
• blusterous
• high-and-mighty
• uppity
• snooty
• pontifical
• overconfident
• hifalutin
• snobby
• superior
• blustery
• bragging
• braggart
• high-handed
• assumptive
• lordly
• disdainful
• imperious
• holier-than-thou
• chesty
• uppish
• masterful
• braggy
• pretentious
• self-assertive
• toploftical
• huffy
• peremptory
• presuming
• toplofty
• self-confident
• high-hat
• presumptuous
• self-assured
• patronizing
• self-centered
• self-asserting
• condescending
• fastuous
• lofty
• highfalutin
• self-contented
• self-congratulatory
• self-glorifying
• self-dramatizing
• self-promoting
• self-engrossed
• self-adulatory
• self-gratulatory
• self-applauding
• self-affected

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• modest
• humble
• egoless
• diffident
• timid
• meek
• self-critical
• unassertive
• uncomplacent
• self-doubting
• unassuming
• shrinking
• bashful
• unpretentious
• sheepish
• down-to-earth
• self-distrustful
• self-reproachful
• self-reproving
• introverted
• mousy
• shy
• retiring
• overmodest
• demure
• mousey
• unarrogant

2

as in excessive

going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount

overweening desire for wealth and fame

Synonyms & Similar Words

• excessive
• extreme
• extravagant
• insane
• steep
• undue
• infinite
• inordinate
• lavish
• endless
• immoderate
• baroque
• exorbitant
• intolerable
• over the top
• fancy
• unmerciful
• unconscionable
• towering
• overmuch
• unbearable
• devilish
• plethoric
• inappropriate
• overdue
• overextravagant
• stiff
• boundless
• improper
• unwarranted
• limitless
• a bit much
• immeasurable
• unjustifiable
• unseemly
• unrestrained
• thick

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reasonable
• moderate
• modest
• inadequate
• insufficient
• middling
• deficient
• temperate
• minimal
• minimum

3

as in arrogant

having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude

an overweening administrator who simply doesn't know how to manage people

Synonyms & Similar Words

• arrogant
• superior
• cavalier
• domineering
• bumptious
• supercilious
• dominant
• haughty
• hifalutin
• high-and-mighty
• important
• uppity
• pompous
• imperious
• smug
• high-handed
• pretentious
• sniffy
• assumptive
• masterful
• authoritarian
• lordly
• chesty
• uppish
• presumptuous
• dominating
• presuming
• huffy
• peremptory
• high-hat
• highfalutin
• self-assertive
• patronizing
• toploftical
• self-asserting
• proud
• lofty
• huffish
• toplofty
• magisterial
• impudent
• stiff-necked
• egotistical
• condescending
• bossy
• hubristic
• pontifical
• vainglorious
• boastful
• narcissistic
• snobbish
• swaggering
• bombastic
• egocentric
• egoistical
• snooty
• disdainful
• cocky
• egotistic
• vain
• snobby
• saucy
• blusterous
• conceited
• impertinent
• self-centered
• egoistic
• blustery
• complacent
• uninhibited
• pontificating
• prideful
• self-complacent
• self-satisfied
• immodest
• extraverted
• bragging
• braggart
• self-conceited
• unreserved
• brash
• self-flattering
• extroverted
• braggy
• stuck-up
• self-promoting
• self-loving
• orgulous
• self-affected
• self-applauding
• self-pleased
• forward

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• modest
• humble
• lowly
• timid
• unpretentious
• shrinking
• bashful
• subdued
• sheepish
• diffident
• shy
• introverted
• passive
• mousy
• deferential
• acquiescent
• demure
• meek
• submissive
• unassuming
• unobtrusive
• yielding
• compliant
• unarrogant
• unassertive
• unaggressive
• self-doubting
• self-critical
• overmodest
• cringing
• mousey
• quiet
• cowering
• reserved
• retiring

4

as in inflated

extended beyond normal or realistic bounds

an overweening national pride that prompted its citizens to denigrate other countries

Synonyms & Similar Words

• inflated
• exaggerated
• outsized
• overblown
• outsize
• overdrawn
• bloated
• hyperbolized
• enlarged
• unreasonable
• stretched
• magnified
• overstated
• padded
• grandiose
• elaborated
• embroidered
• overplayed
• overemphasized
• unrealistic
• unreal
• embellished
• overdone
• hyped-up
• preposterous

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reasonable
• realistic

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