Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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overweening

UK /əʊvəˈwiːnɪŋ/ · US /oʊvɚˈwinɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Forms overweenings over-weening

  1. adjective Unduly confident; (sometimes also) arrogant. “She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she’s overweening.”
  2. adjective Exaggerated, excessive.
  3. noun (now rare) An excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s abilities; presumption, arrogance.

Synonyms

overconfident presumptuous conceited airy arrogant chesty authoritarian biggity big-headed blustery turgescent boastful lordly bombastic buggish cocky disdainful domineering egotistical entitled excessive extravagant exuberant uppity

Antonyms

underconfident unconfident uncertain unsure timid moderate appropriate due apropos

Etymology

From Middle English overweninge, equivalent to overween + -ing. Cognate with obsolete Dutch overwanig, overwaand (“presumptuous; cocky; conceited”).

From Middle English overweninge, equivalent to overween + -ing.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
  2. noun Conceit; arrogance. Milton.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “overweening”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “overweening” (best matches first).