Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overcelebrate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: overcel-e-brate
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To overindulge in activities that celebrate something; to party too hard.

verb

To treat as more significant or praiseworthy than is deserved.

Example Sentences

"As you can see, I've overcelebrated the holidays."
"Maggie took the wheel of the Spyder for the trip home, Paul having overcelebrated the victory."
"Several of them were clearly highly respectable businessmen who had overcelebrated the previous evening and whose melancholic airs were born of a blend of natural hangover and of genuine mortification at their predicament."
"According to Conradt (2001), The simple lesson to be learned from the whale trainers is to overcelebrate. Make a big deal out of the good and little stuff that we want consistently."
"There is a highly competitive and emulous scramble to find the Next Big Thing in prostate cancer, and that is invariably accompanied by a tendency to overcelebrate breakthroughs and vastly exaggerate triumphs"
"The urge to overcelebrate the promise has had many sources."

Etymology

From over- + celebrate.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over

Inflected Forms

overcelebrates (present, singular) overcelebrating (participle, present) overcelebrated (participle, past) overcelebrated (past) over-celebrate (alternative)

Questions

What does overcelebrate mean?: To overindulge in activities that celebrate something; to party too hard.
Where does overcelebrate come from?: From over- + celebrate.

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