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overboisterous

overboisterous adjective: excessively boisterous.

Adjective

overboisterous (comparative more overboisterous, superlative most overboisterous)

  1. Excessively boisterous.
    • She was neither overdressed nor overdecked in jewels, nor over made-up as some of her peers were; nor was she overboisterous.2015, Muneeza Shamsie, And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women

Forms of overboisterous

comparativemore overboisterous
superlativemost overboisterous

Origin of overboisterous

From over- + boisterous.

Words formed from overboisterous

Questions about overboisterous

What does overboisterous mean?
Overboisterous means excessively boisterous.
What part of speech is overboisterous?
Overboisterous is an adjective.

Words near overboisterous in the dictionary

  1. overbodying
  2. overboil
  3. overboiled
  4. overboiling
  5. overboils
  6. overboisterous
  7. overboisterously
  8. overbold
  9. overboldly
  10. overboldness
  11. overbook

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