overzealously
/ˌoʊvɚzˈɛləsli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an overzealous way; with excessive zeal.
Example Sentences
- "Critics say a law designed to keep medical information confidential is being overzealously applied."
- "Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who shoot up shuls."
Etymology
From overzealous + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more overzealously (comparative)
most overzealously (superlative)