overadjectived

Adjective

overadjectived (comparative more overadjectived, superlative most overadjectived)

1. Having too many adjectives.
   • It is [Joseph] Conrad’s earliest style, a little lush, perhaps, a little overadjectived, but already the style of a man who knew how to subordinate the individual word to the total impression—a man who would always be the master, never the servant, of words[.]1939, David Daiches, The Novel and the Modern World, Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, published 1948, page 63
   • Yet, as he stumbles through rhapsodic and overadjectived descriptions of the wild and lonely loveliness of nature, he reminds himself that simple phrasing is best.1975, Lewis Leary, Soundings: Some Early American Writers, Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 183