Explore Overweening through 5 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like excessive or extravagant. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Overweening in a sentence
Overweening meaning
- Unduly confident; (sometimes also) arrogant.
- Exaggerated, excessive.
Synonyms of Overweening
Using Overweening
- The main meaning on this page is: Unduly confident; (sometimes also) arrogant. | Exaggerated, excessive.
- Useful related words include: excessive, extravagant, exuberant, unrestrained.
- In the example corpus, overweening often appears in combinations such as: an overweening.
Context around Overweening
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 5 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overweening
- In this selection, "overweening" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pride, let and ambition stand out and add context to how "overweening" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include cameron s overweening pride has and from an overweening government but. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overweening" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overweening
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Away with all that is overweening; let the state of Roman majesty withdraw. (13 words)
Groves also detected in Oppenheimer something that many others did not, an "overweening ambition" that Groves reckoned would supply the drive necessary to push the project to a successful conclusion. (30 words)
A film critic for the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Cameron's overweening pride has come close to capsizing this project" and that the film was "a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances". (35 words)
He regarded this precept as "the most false and dangerous of all political errors".sfn States could constitutionally take action to free themselves from an overweening government, but slaves as individuals or interest groups could not do so. (38 words)
Tolkien's "Gnomes" are generally tall, beautiful, dark-haired, light-skinned, immortal, and typically wise but suffer from pride, tend towards violence, and have an overweening love of the works of their own hands, particularly gemstones. (36 words)
A film critic for the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Cameron's overweening pride has come close to capsizing this project" and that the film was "a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances". (35 words)
Example sentences (5)
A film critic for the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Cameron's overweening pride has come close to capsizing this project" and that the film was "a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances".
Away with all that is overweening; let the state of Roman majesty withdraw.
Groves also detected in Oppenheimer something that many others did not, an "overweening ambition" that Groves reckoned would supply the drive necessary to push the project to a successful conclusion.
He regarded this precept as "the most false and dangerous of all political errors".sfn States could constitutionally take action to free themselves from an overweening government, but slaves as individuals or interest groups could not do so.
Tolkien's "Gnomes" are generally tall, beautiful, dark-haired, light-skinned, immortal, and typically wise but suffer from pride, tend towards violence, and have an overweening love of the works of their own hands, particularly gemstones.
Common combinations with overweening
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an overweening 3×