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Assertive and Overweening

adjective

  • Aggressively self-assured.
    • usage: "an energetic assertive boy who was always ready to argue"; "pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act"
(a.) Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

adjective

  • Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings.
    • usage: "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"
  • 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