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overweening Meaning in Tamil ( overweening வார்த்தையின் தமிழ் அர்த்தம்)



Adjective:

அளவுக்கு மீறிய தன்னம்பிக்கை கொண்ட,



overweening தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

தொடர் மங்கோலிய வெற்றிகளால் சிகி குதுகு அளவுக்கு மீறிய தன்னம்பிக்கை கொண்டிருந்தார்.

overweening's Usage Examples:

His chief fault is his overweening haughtiness, due to an over-exalted opinion of his position, which leads him to insult Chryses and Achilles, thereby bringing great disaster upon the Greeks.


On the outbreak of the civil war, however, he was one of the first to desert Caesar, probably owing to an overweening sense of his own importance, not adequately recognized by Caesar.


Any deprivation or supersession of the count might impoverish, dispossess or ruin the vassals of the entire county; so that all, vassals or officials, small and great, feeling their danger, united their efforts, and lent each other mutual assistance against the permanent menace of an overweening monarchy.


overweening power of the state.


overweening conceit, but rather the reverse.


Nor is it unjust to infer that the sense of opposition provoked some of the Cynics to an overweening display of superiority.


"The overweening arrogance of the Spaniards soon drove the pope back into the ranks of their enemies.


The prestige which the First Consul had gained by the Concordat was now lost by the overweening emperor.


The evacuation of Egypt by Antiochus Epiphanes at the bidding of the Roman ambassadors suits the warning addressed to "Greece" (732-740) against overweening ambition and any attempt upon the Holy City, which is somewhat strangely enforced by the famous Greek oracle, "Let Camarina be, 'tis best unstirred.


Mysticism, on the other hand, is marked on its speculative side by even an overweening confidence in human reason.


It was full time, for Schelling's undoubtedly overweening self-confidence had involved him in a series of disputes and quarrels at Jena, the details of which are important only as illustrations of the evil qualities in Schelling's nature which deface much of his philosophic work.





Synonyms:

exuberant, extravagant, excessive, unrestrained,



Antonyms:

moderate, tame, reserved, controlled, restrained,

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