[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

overweening \o`verween"ing\, n.
   conceit; arrogance. --milton.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

overweening \o`verween"ing\, a.
   unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited. --
   o`verween"ingly, adv. --milton. -- o`verween"ingness,
   n.
   1913 webster

         the conceits of warmed or overweening brain. --locke.
   1913 webster

         here's an overweening rogue.             --shak.
   1913 webster
see also:
o`verween"ingly o`verween"ingness 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

overweening
     adj 1: unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise";
            "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition";
            "overweening greed" syn: excessive, extravagant,
            exuberant
     2: presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening
        manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- s.v.benet;
        "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"-
        ny times syn: uppity
see also:
excessive extravagant exuberant uppity 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

133 moby thesaurus words for "overweening":
   a bit much, abandoned, arrogant, assuming, assured, audacious,
   boundless, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious, cocksure, cold,
   complacent, confident, consequential, contumelious, convinced,
   cool, decided, determined, disdainful, egregious, enormous,
   exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous,
   familiar, fancy, forward, gigantic, gluttonous, high, hubristic,
   hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, improvident, imprudent,
   impudent, incautious, incontinent, indiscreet, injudicious,
   inordinate, insolent, insulting, intemperate, monstrous, narcissan,
   narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, obtrusive, out of bounds,
   out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overbold, overcareless,
   overconfident, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge,
   overmuch, overpresumptuous, overproud, oversure, persuaded, poised,
   pompous, positive, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, proud,
   pushful, pushy, rash, reassured, secure, self-admiring,
   self-appointed, self-approving, self-asserting, self-assertive,
   self-assuming, self-assured, self-complacent, self-confident,
   self-congratulating, self-congratulatory, self-content,
   self-contented, self-delighting, self-elect, self-endeared,
   self-esteeming, self-gratulating, self-gratulatory, self-important,
   self-loving, self-reliant, self-respecting, self-satisfied,
   self-sufficient, smug, steep, stiff, sure, temerarious, too much,
   unafraid, unbridled, unchary, unconscionable, undoubting, undue,
   unfaltering, unhesitating, unreasonable, unrestrained, unwary,
   unwavering, uppish, uppity, vain, vainglorious, would-be

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