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Synonyms & Antonyms of overweening
- a director who has little patience for overweening actors who think they are above taking advice and criticism
Synonyms for overweening
- assured,
- biggety
- (or biggity)
- [Southern & Midland],
- bigheaded,
- complacent,
- conceited,
- consequential,
- egoistic
- (also egoistical),
- egotistic
- (or egotistical),
- important,
- pompous,
- prideful,
- proud,
- self-conceited,
- self-important,
- self-opinionated,
- self-satisfied,
- smug,
- stuck-up,
- swellheaded,
- vain,
- vainglorious
Words Related to overweening
- arrogant,
- assumptive,
- bumptious,
- cavalier,
- chesty,
- disdainful,
- fastuous,
- haughty,
- high-and-mighty,
- high-hat,
- huffy,
- lofty,
- lordly,
- masterful,
- peremptory,
- pontifical,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- supercilious,
- superior,
- toplofty
- (also toploftical),
- uppish,
- uppity
- highfalutin
- (also hifalutin),
- holier-than-thou,
- pretentious
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Antonyms for overweening
- overweening desire for wealth and fame
Synonyms for overweening
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Phrases Synonymous with overweening
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Antonyms for overweening
- an overweening administrator who simply doesn't know how to manage people
Synonyms for overweening
- arrogant,
- assumptive,
- 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,
- stiff-necked,
- supercilious,
- superior,
- toplofty
- (also toploftical),
- uppish,
- uppity
Words Related to overweening
- blusterous,
- blustery,
- boastful,
- bombastic,
- braggart,
- bragging,
- braggy,
- cocky,
- swaggering,
- vain,
- vainglorious
- complacent,
- conceited,
- egocentric,
- egoistic
- (also egoistical),
- egotistic
- (or egotistical),
- hubristic,
- narcissistic,
- orgulous,
- prideful,
- proud,
- self-affected,
- self-applauding,
- self-centered,
- self-complacent,
- self-conceited,
- self-pleased,
- self-satisfied,
- smug,
- stuck-up
- extroverted
- (also extraverted),
- immodest
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Antonyms for overweening
- an overweening national pride that prompted its citizens to denigrate other countries
Synonyms for overweening
- bloated,
- exaggerated,
- hyperbolized,
- inflated,
- outsize
- (also outsized),
- overblown,
- overdrawn
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“Overweening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overweening. Accessed 22 Sep. 2021.
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