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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.
  • ADORNINGLY
    By adorning; decoratively.
  • FUMBLINGLY
    In the manner of one who fumbles.
  • CLATTERINGLY
    With clattering.
  • DEPLORINGLY
    In a deploring manner.
  • BESOTTINGLY
    In a besotting manner.
  • PREPONDERATINGLY
    In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.

 

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