Dictionary

overexquisite en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + exquisite.

Meanings

1. Excessively exquisite; too exact or careful.
   • ‘Be not overexquisite/To cast the fashion of uncertain evils.'" 1818-1819, Leonard Merrick, To Tell You the Truth, Hodder & Stoughton, pages 249-250:
   • If his humour does not often compel to Olympian laughter, it is, on the other hand, never studied nor overexquisite, nor strained for effect. 1902, The Office, London, Punch Volume- CXXII, Hodder & Stoughton, page 294:
   • Nevertheless, in times like these it does not do to be overexquisite in emphasizing defects of system or crudities of theology. 1890, The Chicago Sunday Tribune, Harper & Brothers, page 34:

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Deriveds

overexquisitely