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overexplanatory

overexplanatory adjective: excessively explanatory.

Adjective

overexplanatory (comparative more overexplanatory, superlative most overexplanatory)

  1. Excessively explanatory.
    • Its look and pace closely resemble those of “Without a Trace”; it puts its dead victims on screen to observe the action, a device borrowed from “Cold Case”; and it has the stilted, overexplanatory dialogue that somehow characterizes every series in the Bruckheimer canon, regardless of show runner...2009 September 22, Mike Hale, “Amateur Detectives Meet Unidentified Victims”, in New York Times

Forms of overexplanatory

comparativemore overexplanatory
superlativemost overexplanatory

Origin of overexplanatory

From over- + explanatory.

Questions about overexplanatory

What does overexplanatory mean?
Overexplanatory means excessively explanatory.
What part of speech is overexplanatory?
Overexplanatory is an adjective.

Words near overexplanatory in the dictionary

  1. overexplainers
  2. overexplaining
  3. overexplains
  4. overexplanation
  5. overexplanations
  6. overexplanatory
  7. overexplicit
  8. overexplicitness
  9. overexploit
  10. overexploitation
  11. overexploitations

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