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.
How do you use overweening in a sentence?
Overweening in a Sentence ?
- Ever since Jim won the contest, he has been overweening and acting as though he is the smartest kid on the planet.
- The overweening professor laughed at his students when they asked what he felt were stupid questions.
What is the word overweening mean?
1 : arrogant, presumptuous. 2 : immoderate, exaggerated.
