overbrimful
overbrimful adjective: overbrimming; overfull; full to overflowing.
Adjective
overbrimful (comparative more overbrimful, superlative most overbrimful)
- Overbrimming; overfull; full to overflowing.
- Then the Dean, all in white, and pale with affright/, Slow mounted the pulpit stair;/ But he trembled and shook when he met the fierce look/ That scowled on him, "Read if you dare!"/He felt he was doomed, but, courage assumed,/ He raised up his voice through his fear,/ When a cry from the crowd -...1865, Angus MacPherson, The Banner O' Blue, Or, The Career of the Covenant: Being a Series of Ballads and Other Poems on the Great Struggle for the National Covenant of Scotland Flag, T. Murray, page...
- To this Russian poet and mystic as well as to Browning, there is nothing like evil in Life. It is overbrimful of only the good. If there is any evil that is visible to the purblind eye, it is there and does not poison the good but would emphasize the existence of the good all the more.1927-1948, P. Sama Rao, Triveni Journal: The Poems of Nicholas Roerich, H. Hamilton, page 41
Forms of overbrimful
| comparative | more overbrimful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most overbrimful |
Origin of overbrimful
From over- + brimful.
Questions about overbrimful
- What does overbrimful mean?
- Overbrimful means overbrimming; overfull; full to overflowing.
- What part of speech is overbrimful?
- Overbrimful is an adjective.
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