Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overfast

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-fast
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Too quick.

adv

verb

To refrain from food to an excessive degree.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"1914-1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear MacDonald shook his head. “Man, you are surely travelling overfast,” said he. “I have heard no evidence yet that any stranger was ever in the house at all.”"
"[…] overfasting could make a monk too exhausted to pray […]"

Etymology

From over- + fast.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over

Usage

Intransitive verb

Inflected Forms

more overfast (comparative) most overfast (superlative) overfasts (present, singular) overfasting (participle, present) overfasted (participle, past) overfasted (past)

Questions

What does overfast mean?: Too quick.
Where does overfast come from?: From over- + fast.

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