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overfast

overfast adjective: too quick.

Adjective

overfast (comparative more overfast, superlative most overfast)

  1. Too quick.

Adverb

overfast (comparative more overfast, superlative most overfast)

  1. Too quickly.
    • MacDonald shook his head. “Man, you are surely travelling overfast,” said he. “I have heard no evidence yet that any stranger was ever in the house at all.”1914-1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

Verb

overfast (third-person singular simple present overfasts, present participle overfasting, simple past and past participle overfasted)

  1. (intransitive) To refrain from food to an excessive degree.
    • […] overfasting could make a monk too exhausted to pray […]2023, Jamie Kreiner, The Wandering Mind

Forms of overfast

Adjective
comparativemore overfast
superlativemost overfast
Adverb
comparativemore overfast
superlativemost overfast
Verb
third-person singular presentoverfasts
present participleoverfasting
past participleoverfasted
pastoverfasted

Origin of overfast

From over- + fast.

Questions about overfast

What does overfast mean?
Overfast means too quick.
What part of speech is overfast?
Overfast can be an adjective, an adverb or a verb.

Words near overfast in the dictionary

  1. overfare
  2. overfarm
  3. overfarmed
  4. overfarming
  5. overfarms
  6. overfast
  7. overfasted
  8. overfastidious
  9. overfastidiously
  10. overfastidiousness
  11. overfasting

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