Arrogant vs Overween - What's the difference?
arrogant | overween |
(ergative) To think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself).
* (rfdate), Milton, Sonnet IX :
* 2005 , A. J. Liebling, published in Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer , page 327:
To make or render arrogant and overweening.
* 1987 October, in Field & Stream , volume 92, number 6, page 24:
* 2009 , Ariel Dorfman, The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds , page 6:
(proscribed) To overwhelm.
* 2003 , Michael Gelven, What happens to us when we think: transformation and reality , page 44:
As an adjective arrogant
is having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt for others.As a verb overween is
(ergative) to think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself).arrogant
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(arrogance)Alternative forms
* arrogaunt (obsolete)Usage notes
* Said of people, statements, etc.Synonyms
* conceited * condescending * disdainful * haughty * high-handed * narcissistic * overbearing * presumptuous * supercilious * proud * vain * See alsoAntonyms
* humble * modestDerived terms
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* ----overween
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Verb
(en verb)- and they that overween , / And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen,
- The clouds on Futurity Day bore out in a general way this prognostication. But he overweened himself.
- There is, I suppose, the cheap drama of man sticking his nose into an area where it does little good except to expand his already overweened vanity.
- Sometimes we manage to come up with original ways of viewing a world hardened, stratified, overweened by its own power, a world which believes itself as omnipotent as its technological achievements might seem to imply.
- The invasion of a vast enemy host upon the unprepared is unstoppable; the huge phalanx of tanks overweens our small army of trucks and rifles;