• (British) IPA: /əʊvəˈwiːnɪŋ/
• (GA) IPA: /oʊvɚˈwinɪŋ/

overweening

1. Unduly confident; arrogant

   She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she’s overweening.

   Synonyms: presumptuous, conceited

   • 1870, Carl Schurz, George H. Thomas Eulogy

     No success rendered him overweening and no disaster was ever known to stagger his firmness.

   • 1908, Frederic Bancroft and William A. Dunning, A Sketch of Carl Schurz’s Political Career

     The Senate was displaying an overweening hauteur as if it were the government.

2. Exaggerated, excessive.

• French: confiant, arrogant
• German: überheblich, eingebildet, anmaßend, arrogant
• Russian: самонаде́янный
• Spanish: prepotente

overweening

1. (now rare) An excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s abilities; presumption, arrogance.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗, page 258 ↗:

     Let us suppresse this over-weening {{transterm

1. present participle of overween#English|overween