overgrand
overgrand adjective: excessively grand.
Adjective
overgrand (comparative more overgrand, superlative most overgrand)
- Excessively grand.
- It is a grand work, overgrand for the state of the people, for the minimum section of the canal in the first 75 miles has a 90-feet bottom breadth, and the great desideratum in the Ceded Districts is irrigation.1878, Government of India, Indian Forester, Constable, page 144
- Miss Marigold, however, was no longer young, while Tibbie had been young as a first summer bird. Miss Marigold was to wear the uninteresting garments which so many brides wore now, but Tibbie herself had been dressed in white. Not satin, of course, or a wreath, or the overgrand ornament of a veil —...1933, Constance Holme, The Trumpet in the Dust, Oxford University Press, page 70
Examples of overgrand in a sentence
- Not satin, of course, or a wreath, or the overgrand ornament of a veil — both Tibbie and her mother were too sensible for that.1933, Constance Holme, The Trumpet in the Dust, Oxford University Press, page 70:
- At the head of each chapter are one or two quotations from Byron, Keats and Shelley — from no one else: and Woodhouse and I think his lordship does not look overgrand in such company.1950, Rosalie Glynn Grylls, Trelawny, Constable, page 160:
- He takes note also of the sacrifice of convenience in some houses to a piazza, or an overgrand staircase; even of such mundane matters as ill-built chimneys and leaking cellars.1951, Vivian C. Hopkins, Spiers of Form, Cambridge, page 87:
- His guest was also happy to get for the first time a fairly accurate picture of the island economy in, to use an overgrand phrase, the “private sector.”1973, Ian M. Ball, Pitcairn - Children of the Bounty, Orion Publishing Group, Limited, page 338:
Forms of overgrand
| comparative | more overgrand |
|---|---|
| superlative | most overgrand |
Origin of overgrand
From over- + grand.
Questions about overgrand
- What does overgrand mean?
- Overgrand means excessively grand.
- How do you use overgrand in a sentence?
- Not satin, of course, or a wreath, or the overgrand ornament of a veil — both Tibbie and her mother were too sensible for that.
- What part of speech is overgrand?
- Overgrand is an adjective.
Words near overgrand in the dictionary
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