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overexquisite

overexquisite adjective: excessively exquisite; too exact or careful.

Adjective

overexquisite (comparative more overexquisite, superlative most overexquisite)

  1. Excessively exquisite; too exact or careful.
    • ‘Be not overexquisite/To cast the fashion of uncertain evils.'"1818-1819, Leonard Merrick, To Tell You the Truth, Hodder & Stoughton, pages 249-250
    • Nevertheless, in times like these it does not do to be overexquisite in emphasizing defects of system or crudities of theology.1890, The Chicago Sunday Tribune, Harper & Brothers, page 34

Forms of overexquisite

comparativemore overexquisite
superlativemost overexquisite

Origin of overexquisite

From over- + exquisite.

Words formed from overexquisite

Questions about overexquisite

What does overexquisite mean?
Overexquisite means excessively exquisite; too exact or careful.
What part of speech is overexquisite?
Overexquisite is an adjective.

Words near overexquisite in the dictionary

  1. overexpressing
  2. overexpression
  3. overexpressions
  4. overexpressor
  5. overexpressors
  6. overexquisite
  7. overexquisitely
  8. overextend
  9. overextended
  10. overextender
  11. overextenders

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