overmarinated
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Too big at times: “City on Fire” can occasionally feel overmarinated in research (the author having seemingly inhaled whole books like “Love Goes to Buildings on Fire, ” Will Hermes’s terrific portrait of the New York music scene in the mid-70s), and the reader can’t help feeling that a few judicious nips and tucks might have dispersed the longueurs that waft around the third quarter of the book."
Etymology
From over- + marinated.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over
Inflected Forms
more overmarinated (comparative)
most overmarinated (superlative)