Adjective:

ଗର୍ବିତ |, ଅହଂକାରୀ,

overweening's Usage Examples:

"strayed from the paths of conduct traveled by his father and, by his overweening pride and tyrannical arrogance, made himself a burden to all.

title "The Apple and the Pear", with the moral that the humble become overweening when the great fall out.

"in the ethnic Asian community today as naturally as the exotic and overweening architecture of Mumbai, built on the high tide of the British Raj, suits.

about his own works: "to negotiate the waters between the Scylla of overweening self-importance and the Charybdis of childish self-deprecation.

rather of angels than of conventional fairies, and they exhibit an "overweening sense of righteousness," arising from their freedom from sin.

Aetnaean hill [Mount Etna in Sicily], then she complained loudly with overweening words and raved foolishly for jealousy, and Demeter in anger trampled.

In the Old Testament, the "hubris is overweening pride, superciliousness or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution or nemesis".

On Desperate Ground on a deeper level, is also an indictment of the overweening hubris of General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur.

Tigranocerta, on which occasion he, in vain, endeavoured to restrain the overweening confidence of the Armenian monarch.

Lucius" second son was named after his murdered brother; but it was the overweening pride and arrogance of Lucius" sons that brought about the downfall of.

not get on well with his general, and his quarrelsome disposition, his overweening vanity and his habit of composing libellous chansons made him eventually.

people for having "spoken against him, stolen his property, acted in an overweening fashion, challenged his authority, or humiliated him".

spirit of divine retribution against those who had succumbed to hubris (overweening pride).

Synonyms:

exuberant, extravagant, excessive, unrestrained,

Antonyms:

moderate, tame, reserved, controlled, restrained,