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over-celebrated

over-celebrated is the alternative form of overcelebrated.

over-celebrated is the simple past and past participle of over-celebrate.

Meaning of overcelebrated

Adjective

overcelebrated (comparative more overcelebrated, superlative most overcelebrated)

  1. Treated as more significant or praiseworthy than is deserved .
    • To determine who are Chicago`s 10 most overcelebrated celebrities, we polled 75 readers, most of them, as it happens, journalists known to take pleasure in beating dead horses.1985 December 26, Clarence Petersen, “Very Illuminated People”, in The Chicago Tribune

Meaning of over-celebrate

Verb

over-celebrate (third-person singular simple present over-celebrates, present participle over-celebrating, simple past and past participle over-celebrated)

  1. To party too hard.
    • He DID drink on his off days, however, and since the diner had been closed for three days over the New Year's weekend, Tony had “over-celebrated” and was too hung over to come in.2005, Carole I. Hardeway, Chasing the Moon - the Preparation, Volume One, →ISBN, page 4
  2. To treat as more significant than is deserved.
    • These last two have perhaps been over-celebrated.1857–1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], “(please specify the page)”, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, published 1858, →OCLC

Forms of over-celebrated

comparativemore over-celebrated
superlativemost over-celebrated

Questions about over-celebrated

What is over-celebrated the alternative form of?
Over-celebrated is the alternative form of overcelebrated.

Words near over-celebrated in the dictionary

  1. over-awe
  2. over-burning
  3. over-burnt
  4. over-canvassed
  5. over-celebrate
  6. over-celebrated
  7. over-celebrates
  8. over-celebrating
  9. over-clock
  10. over-compensate
  11. over-compensated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: over-celebrated (page history and authors); overcelebrated (page history and authors); over-celebrate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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