Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

overscaled en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English scaled English overscaled From over- + scaled.

Meanings

  1. Oversized; larger than the proper scale
    • There are several obligatory postmodernist quirks, such as the wildly overscaled sculptural excrescences at the roof line. 1988 June 10, Ed Zotti, “One for the Books”, in Chicago Reader:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more overscaled Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most overscaled Degree=Sup lexicographic

Synonyms

overscale