overweening

1. 1.

   unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

   “extravagant praise”

   “exuberant compliments”

   “overweening ambition”

   “overweening greed”

   Synonymsexcessiveextravagantexuberant

   Similarunrestrained
2. 2.

   presumptuously arrogant

   “had a witty but overweening manner”

   “no idea how overweening he would be”

   “getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down”

   Synonymsuppity

   Similarimmodest

Questions about overweening

What does overweening mean?

overweening means "unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overweening?

overweening has 4 syllables: o-ver-wee-ning. The stress falls on "ver".

What is another word for overweening?

Close synonyms include excessive, extravagant, exuberant, uppity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overweening a common word?

overweening is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.