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.