overcelebrated
overcelebrated adjective: treated as more significant or praiseworthy than is deserved . Also the simple past and past participle of overcelebrate.
Adjective
overcelebrated (comparative more overcelebrated, superlative most overcelebrated)
- Treated as more significant or praiseworthy than is deserved .
- To determine who are Chicago`s 10 most overcelebrated celebrities, we polled 75 readers, most of them, as it happens, journalists known to take pleasure in beating dead horses.1985 December 26, Clarence Petersen, “Very Illuminated People”, in The Chicago Tribune
- Nevertheless, he must be counted as one of the several independent discoverers of this celebrated, probably overcelebrated, theorem, a history of which he has given [1975, IV, Chap. 274].1996, James Tobin, Essays in Economics: National and International, →ISBN, page 777
Also used as
overcelebrated is also the simple past and past participle of overcelebrate.
Forms of overcelebrated
| comparative | more overcelebrated |
|---|---|
| superlative | most overcelebrated |
| alternative form | over-celebrated |
Origin of overcelebrated
From over- + celebrated.
From overcelebrate + -ed.
Questions about overcelebrated
- What does overcelebrated mean?
- Overcelebrated means treated as more significant or praiseworthy than is deserved .
- What part of speech is overcelebrated?
- Overcelebrated is an adjective.
Words near overcelebrated in the dictionary
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