| 单词 | overweening |
| 释义 | overweening (once / 8449 pages) adj Overweening is a negative term meaning arrogant or excessive. People can be described as having overweening pride or overweening ambition. It's too much and not good. Confidence and pride are okay in moderation. Overweening means having too much of it though so that it overtakes the rest of your personality, and not in a good way. If your football team has won every game of the season, they need to watch that they don't become overweening and start playing games as if they have already won. WORD FAMILYoverweening: overweeningly USAGE EXAMPLESIt is the taste produced by a fragile but overweening vanity feeding obsessively on ever more glittering signifiers. Slate(Dec 14, 2016) Then overturn his more elaborate legislative adventures into overweening liberalism, starting, of course, with Obamacare. Washington Post(Nov 10, 2016) Ironically, the overweening law may end up doing the opposite of what is intended. Economist(Nov 10, 2016) 1adj presumptuously arrogant had a witty but overweening manner "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet Syn uppity immodest having or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc 2adj unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings overweening ambition overweening greed Syn excessive, extravagant, exuberant unrestrained not subject to restraint |
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