overbrilliant
overbrilliant adjective: excessively brilliant.
Adjective
overbrilliant (comparative more overbrilliant, superlative most overbrilliant)
- Excessively brilliant.
- Lucy was certainly very fresh that morning ; she pawed the gravel, champed her bit, tossed her head, and looked ready for a race indeed. Not being an overbrilliant rider, I firmly refused my uncle’s invitation to mount the mare, and he took her himself. Aileen and Nora sprang into their saddles...1883, Harriett Jay, My Connaught Cousins, Ritterhouse Press, page 52
- Thanks to the mounting and the libretto of Captain Alfred Thompson, supplementing his own tuneful if not overbrilliant music, Mrs. Lillian Russell Solomon has scored a hit with Pepita, given for the first time at the Union-square theater this evening.1885, The San Franciscan (May 1885-June 1886), page 4
Examples of overbrilliant in a sentence
- Not being an overbrilliant rider, I firmly refused my uncle’s invitation to mount the mare, and he took her himself.1883, Harriett Jay, My Connaught Cousins, Ritterhouse Press, page 52:
- This story, which has indeed " a thrill in every line," is written in an overbrilliant style, possessing more glamour than grammar.1909, The Atlantic Monthly, The Atlantic Monthly Company, pages 685-686:
- The overbrilliant colors have faded; the over-emphasis has ceased to be effective — ‘‘The tumult and the shouting dies.”1914, Reed Edward Bliss, English Lyrical Poetry, Yale University Press, page 549:
- It is usually like the colors in a cheap rug or fabric — either dull or overbrilliant.1925, Albert Coombs Barnes, The Art in Painting, Harcourt, Brace & Company, page 109:
Forms of overbrilliant
| comparative | more overbrilliant |
|---|---|
| superlative | most overbrilliant |
Origin of overbrilliant
From over- + brilliant.
Words formed from overbrilliant
Questions about overbrilliant
- What does overbrilliant mean?
- Overbrilliant means excessively brilliant.
- How do you use overbrilliant in a sentence?
- Not being an overbrilliant rider, I firmly refused my uncle’s invitation to mount the mare, and he took her himself.
- What part of speech is overbrilliant?
- Overbrilliant is an adjective.
Words near overbrilliant in the dictionary
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