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overcourteous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
over-cour-te-ous
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Excessively courteous.

Etymology

From over- + courteous.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more overcourteous (comparative) most overcourteous (superlative)

Questions

What does overcourteous mean?
Excessively courteous.
Where does overcourteous come from?
From over- + courteous.

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