Overweening
[əʊvə'wiːnɪŋ] or [,ovɚ'winɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) presumptuously arrogant; 'had a witty but overweening manner'; 'no idea how overweening he would be'- S.V.Benet; 'getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down'- NY Times .
费利西亚編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
(n.) Conceit; arrogance.
編輯:威拉
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Conceited, haughty, proud, arrogant, opinionated, egotistical, consequential, supercilious, vain, vain-glorious, puffed up.
錄入:劳伦斯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Vain, conceited, haughty, egotistical,[See AFFABLE and VAIN]
校對:斯宾塞
例句/造句/用法:
- He saw the yellow flare in her eyes, he knew the unthinkable overweening assumption of primacy in her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And her he loved with all the great, overweening, sheltering love of a dying man. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Of wild and overweening temper, she could not bear the humiliation of her husband's soft, half-appealing kindness to everybody. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- But the overweening power of his body was too much for her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
校對:斯宾塞