Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overprecious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
over-pre-cious
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Excessively precious; contrived, artificial.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From over- + precious.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more overprecious (comparative) most overprecious (superlative)

Questions

What does overprecious mean?
Excessively precious; contrived, artificial.
Where does overprecious come from?
From over- + precious.

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