overadjectived
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having too many adjectives.
Example Sentences
- "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[.]"
- "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."
- "For a critic to declare these lines overadjectived and overwritten would not be a matter for surprise."
- "You’re an avid Pinterester and you can’t resist a good brunch or over-adjective’d Starbucks order."
Etymology
From over- + adjectived.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over
Inflected Forms
more overadjectived (comparative)
most overadjectived (superlative)
over-adjectived (alternative)