Word Meanings - OVERWEENING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited. -- O`ver*ween"ingly, adv. Milton. -- O`ver*ween"ing*ness, n. Here's an overweening rogue. Shak.

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• CONFIDENT
  See DRYDEN
• PRESUMPTUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being presumptuous.
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• ROGUERY
  1. The life of a vargant. 2. The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden. 3. Arch tricks; mischievousness.
• ARROGANTLY
  In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.
• CONCEITEDNESS
  The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
• CONFIDENTIAL
  1. Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk. 2. Communicated in confidence; secret. "Confidential messages." Burke. Confidential communication See Privileged communication,
• ROGUE
  A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. Note: The phrase rogues and vagabonds is applied to a large class of wandering, disorderly, or dissolute persons. They were formerly punished by being whipped and having the gristle of the
• ROGUESHIP
  The quality or state of being a rogue. "Your rogueship." Dryden.
• CONCEIT
  conception, fr. concipere to conceive: cf. OF. p. p. nom. conciez 1. That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. Bacon. A man wise
• CONFIDENTNESS
  The quality of being confident.
• ARROGANTNESS
  Arrogance.
• OVERWEENING
  Conceit; arrogance. Milton.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• CONFIDENTIALLY
  In confidence; in reliance on secrecy.
• CONCEITLESS
  Without wit; stupid. Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless. To be seduced by thy flattery Shak.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• OVERWEENER
  One who overweens. The conceits of warmed or overweening brain. Locke.
• CONFIDENTLY
  With confidence; with strong assurance; positively.
• ARROGANT
  1. Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons. Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. Shak. 2. Containing
• LIVINGLY
  In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
• LAUGHINGLY
  With laughter or merriment.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• SMIRKINGLY
  With smirking; with a smirk.
• SUSURRINGLY
  In the manner of a whisper.
• WAITINGLY
  By waiting.
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• EVERLASTINGLY
  In an everlasting manner.
• MAWKINGLY
  Slatternly.
• LOSINGLY
  In a manner to incur loss.
• ROVINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• FUMBLINGLY
  In the manner of one who fumbles.
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• CLATTERINGLY
  With clattering.
• DEPLORINGLY
  In a deploring manner.
• BESOTTINGLY
  In a besotting manner.
• PREPONDERATINGLY
  In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.