Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /əʊvəˈwiːnɪŋ/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
  2. Exaggerated, excessive

Substantiv

  1. (now rare) An excessively high opinion of oneself or one's abilities; presumption, arrogance.

Exempel

  • Here's an overweening rogue.
  • She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she's overweening.
  • No success rendered him overweening and no disaster was ever known to stagger his firmness.
  • The Senate was displaying an overweening hauteur as if it were the government.
  • Let us suppresse this over-weening , the first foundation of the tyrannie of the wicked spirit.

Böjningsformer

Komparativmore overweening
Superlativmost overweening

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