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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

excessive confidence, arrogance or pride;

e.g. His overweening confidence led him to put in less effort than everyone else, and so he failed.

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Similar Words

Arrogant

Assumptive

Assured

Baroque

Biggety

Bloated

Bumptious

Cavalier

Chesty

Complacent

Conceited

Condescending

Consequential

Devilish

Egotistical

Embroidered

Exaggerated

Excessive

Exorbitant

Extravagant

Extreme

Fancy

Haughty

Hifalutin

High-handed

High-hat

High-toned

Highfalutin

Hoity-toity

Huffy

Immoderate

Imperious

Important

Inflated

Inner-directed

Inordinate

Intolerable

Lavish

Lofty

Lordly

Masterful

Outsize

Over-the-top

Overdrawn

Overdue

Overmuch

Peremptory

Pompous

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Prideful

Proud

Regimental

Self-aggrandizing

Self-applauding

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-contained

Self-directed

Self-dramatizing

Self-flattering

Self-glorifying

Self-important

Self-poised

Self-satisfied

Smug

Sniffy

Steep

Stiff

Stiff-necked

Stuck-up

Supercilious

Superior

Than

Toplofty

Towering

Unconscionable

Undue

Unmerciful

Unselfconscious

Uppity

Vain

Vainglorious

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Opposite Words

Acquiescent

Bashful

Compliant

Deferential

Deficient

Demure

Diffident

Down-to-earth

Humble

Inadequate

Insufficient

Introverted

Lowly

Meek

Middling

Minimal

Minimum

Moderate

Modest

Mousy

Other-directed

Overmodest

Passive

Quiet

Realistic

Reserved

Retiring

Self-critical

Self-deprecating

Self-deprecatory

Self-doubting

Self-forgetful

Self-giving

Self-questioning

Sheepish

Shy

Subdued

Submissive

Temperate

Timid

Unaggressive

Unarrogant

Unassertive

Unassuming

Unobtrusive

Unpretentious

Yielding

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Related Words

Affected

Aristocratic

Arrogant

Assumptive

Assured

Authoritarian

Authoritative

Autocratic

Bold

Bombastic

Bossy

Boundless

Braggart

Brash

Bumptious

Cavalier

Chesty

Cocky

Complacent

Conceited

Condescending

Confident

Delirious

Despotic

Dictatorial

Disdainful

Dominant

Domineering

Egocentric

Egotistical

Elitist

Embroidered

Endless

Extroverted

Familiar

Fastuous

Ferocious

Feverish

Fierce

Forward

Frantic

Free

Frenetic

Frenzied

Furious

Grandiose

Haughty

Hifalutin

High-handed

High-hat

High-minded

Highfalutin

Holier-than-thou

Hubristic

Huffy

Immeasurable

Imperious

Impertinent

Improper

Impudent

Inappropriate

Infinite

La-di-da

Lofty

Lordly

Mad

Magisterial

Masterful

Narcissistic

Ostentatious

Overbearing

Overconfident

Overfamiliar

Patronizing

Peremptory

Persnickety

Pompous

Pontifical

Potty

Preposterous

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Prideful

Proud

Rabid

Ritzy

Saucy

Secure

Self-absorbed

Self-applauding

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-assured

Self-centered

Self-dramatizing

Self-flattering

Self-glorifying

Self-infatuated

Self-obsessed

Self-oriented

Self-preoccupied

Self-regarding

Self-satisfied

Self-seeking

Self-serving

Selfish

Smug

Snippy

Snobbish

Snobby

Snooty

Snotty

Solipsistic

Stuck-up

Supercilious

Superior

Thick

Toffee

Toffee-nosed

Toplofty

Tyrannical

Tyrannous

Unbearable

Uninhibited

Unjustifiable

Unreal

Unrealistic

Unreasonable

Unreserved

Unrestrained

Unseemly

Unwarranted

Uppity

Vain

Vainglorious

Violent

Wild

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