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overweening
Synonyms and Antonyms of overweening
- a director who has little patience for overweening actors who think they are above taking advice and criticism
blusterous, blustery, boastful, bombastic, braggart, bragging, braggy, cocky, swaggering
arrogant, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, disdainful, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-hat, huffy, lofty, lordly, masterful, pontifical, self-asserting, self-assertive, snobbish, snobby, snooty, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppish, uppity
domineering, high-handed, imperious
highfalutin (also hifalutin), holier-than-thou, pretentious
overconfident, presuming, presumptuous
confident, self-assured, self-confident
self-adulatory, self-congratulatory, self-contented, self-gratulatory
self-applauding, self-dramatizing, self-glorifying, self-promoting
- overweening desire for wealth and fame
a bit much, over the top
- an overweening administrator who simply doesn't know how to manage people
arrogant, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin (also hifalutin), huffish, huffy, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, sniffy, supercilious, superior, uppish, uppity
authoritarian, bossy, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, pontificating
condescending, disdainful, patronizing
blusterous, blustery, boastful, bombastic, braggart, bragging, braggy, cocky, swaggering, vain, vainglorious
complacent, conceited, egocentric, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), narcissistic, prideful, proud, self-affected, self-applauding, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up
self-flattering, self-loving, self-promoting
brash, forward, uninhibited, unreserved
extroverted (also extraverted), immodest
- an overweening national pride that prompted its citizens to denigrate other countries
bloated, exaggerated, hyperbolized, inflated, outsize (also outsized), overblown, overdrawn
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