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overdocumented

overdocumented adjective: documented to an excessive degree.

Adjective

overdocumented (not comparable)

  1. Documented to an excessive degree.
    • King, by contrast, is all but overdocumented; after schooling, he went west as a surveyor, summing up 10 years of work in two books, including the 815-page “Systematic Geology,” which told, one historian said, “a story only a trifle less dramatic than Genesis.”2009 March 8, Baz Dreisinger, “A Transracial Man”, in New York Times
    • The sterile horrors of the burbs are overdocumented, to say the least, but Perrotta, an expert with precocious youngsters (Election), is never shrill and only slightly vicious in satirizing his infantilized grown-ups.2004 April 6, Dennis Lim, “Much Better Than That Thing With Kevin What's-His-Name”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013

Antonyms of overdocumented

Origin of overdocumented

From over- + documented.

Questions about overdocumented

What does overdocumented mean?
Overdocumented means documented to an excessive degree.
What part of speech is overdocumented?
Overdocumented is an adjective.

Words near overdocumented in the dictionary

  1. overdivision
  2. overdivisions
  3. overdo
  4. overdocument
  5. overdocumentation
  6. overdocumented
  7. overdocumenting
  8. overdocuments
  9. overdoer
  10. overdoers
  11. overdoes

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