Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overcultivated

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-cul-ti-vat-ed
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Excessively cultivated.

Example Sentences

"The overcultivated, emotionally constrained New York of Edith Wharton and Henry James — who appears in the novel as a force for debilitating self-control — resounds in the morality tale of Theodore’s demise."

Etymology

From over- + cultivated.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over

Inflected Forms

more overcultivated (comparative) most overcultivated (superlative)

Questions

What does overcultivated mean?: Excessively cultivated.
Where does overcultivated come from?: From over- + cultivated.

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