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overcoloured

overcoloured is the alternative form of overcolored.

overcoloured is the simple past and past participle of overcolour.

Meaning of overcolored

Adjective

overcolored (comparative more overcolored, superlative most overcolored)

  1. Rendered too colourful; with an excess of color.
  2. exaggerated

Meaning of overcolour

Verb

overcolour (third-person singular simple present overcolours, present participle overcolouring, simple past and past participle overcoloured)

  1. (figuratively, transitive) To exaggerate.
    • But simultaneously, the growing force of her mind's intelligence, wherein was no enthusiasm to misdirect by overcolouring, enabled her to gather more than a suspicion of comparative feebleness in the man stripped of his terrors.1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage

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Forms of overcoloured

comparativemore overcoloured
superlativemost overcoloured

Questions about overcoloured

What is overcoloured the alternative form of?
Overcoloured is the alternative form of overcolored.

Words near overcoloured in the dictionary

  1. overcolor
  2. overcolored
  3. overcoloring
  4. overcolors
  5. overcolour
  6. overcoloured
  7. overcolouring
  8. overcolourings
  9. overcolours
  10. overcomable
  11. overcomb

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcoloured (page history and authors); overcolored (page history and authors); overcolour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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