oversweet
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Too sweet; excessively sweet.
Example Sentences
- "Operetta is tricky: potentially as sparkling and sophisticated as Champagne, it is often produced today as a kind of Kool-Aid punch, overbright and oversweet and with very little appeal to a discriminating audience."
Etymology
From over- + sweet.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over
Inflected Forms
more oversweet (comparative)
most oversweet (superlative)