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overadjectived en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + adjectived.

Meanings

1. Having too many adjectives.
   • Yet, as he stumbles through rhapsodic and overadjectived descriptions of the wild and lonely loveliness of nature, he reminds himself that simple phrasing is best. 1975, Lewis Leary, Soundings: Some Early American Writers, Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 183:
   • It is [Joseph] Conrad’s earliest style, a little lush, perhaps, a little overadjectived, but already the style of a man who knew how to subordinate the individual word to the total impression—a man who would always be the master, never the servant, of words[.] 1939, David Daiches, The Novel and the Modern World, Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, published 1948, page 63:
   • You’re an avid Pinterester and you can’t resist a good brunch or over-adjective’d Starbucks order. 2016, Grace Helbig, Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It, Touchstone, →ISBN, page 89:
   • For a critic to declare these lines overadjectived and overwritten would not be a matter for surprise. 1986, Richard Poole, Richard Hughes: Novelist, Poetry Wales Press, →ISBN, page 93:

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