overexplanatory en · ADJ
Etymology
From over- + explanatory.
Meanings
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Excessively explanatory.
Its look and pace closely resemble those of “Without a Trace”; it puts its dead victims on screen to observe the action, a device borrowed from “Cold Case”; and it has the stilted, overexplanatory dialogue that somehow characterizes every series in the Bruckheimer canon, regardless of show runner or writers.
2009 September 22, Mike Hale, “Amateur Detectives Meet Unidentified Victims”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more overexplanatory | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most overexplanatory | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
nl uitleggerig (excessively explanatory)