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Adjective overweening has 2 senses
- excessive, extravagant, exuberant, overweening - unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"
Antonym: restrained (indirect, via unrestrained)
- overweening, uppity - 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
Antonym: modest (indirect, via immodest)
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