overidle en · ADJ
Etymology
From over- + idle.
Meanings
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Excessively idle.
The Church of England is expected to be an overidle mother, who lets her children entirely alone, because those made her who had found the Church of Rome an overbusy mother.
2008, Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought (page 342)
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more overidle | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most overidle | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |