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over-swift

over-swift is the alternative form of overswift.

Meaning of overswift

Adjective

overswift (comparative more overswift, superlative most overswift)

  1. (rare) Overly swift.
    • A strange air of overswift maturity clings about the supreme moment of sixteenth-century art in France.1879, Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, The Renaissance of Art in France, C. Kegan Paul & Company, page 248

Forms of over-swift

comparativemore over-swift
superlativemost over-swift

Questions about over-swift

What is over-swift the alternative form of?
Over-swift is the alternative form of overswift.

Words near over-swift in the dictionary

  1. over-supinate
  2. over-supinated
  3. over-supinates
  4. over-supinating
  5. over-supination
  6. over-swift
  7. over-the-board
  8. over-the-counter
  9. over-the-line
  10. over-the-pole
  11. over-the-road

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