overgrown
overgrown adjective: having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden. Also the past participle of overgrow.
Adjective
overgrown (comparative more overgrown, superlative most overgrown)
- Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.
- Having grown bigger without developing maturity or changing character.
- He spends so much money on new technology: he's like an overgrown schoolboy buying toys.
Also used as
overgrown is also the past participle of overgrow.
overgrown meaning in Malayalam, Kannada and Thai
overgrown in Malayalam
- അമിതമായി വളർന്നു, അമിതമായി വളർന്നവർ
overgrown in Kannada
- ಅತಿಯಾಗಿ ಬೆಳೆದಿದೆ
overgrown in Thai
- having large numbers of plants which have become too big
- รกชัฏ rók-chát
Examples of overgrown in a sentence
- He seems like an average businessman, but deep down he's an overgrown kid with a necktie.
- The farmer reached into his shed and retrieved an old hink to cut down the overgrown weeds.
- The garden fell into disuse and became overgrown.
Forms of overgrown
| comparative | more overgrown |
|---|---|
| superlative | most overgrown |
Origin of overgrown
From over- + grown.
Words formed from overgrown
Words that rhyme with overgrown
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- moan
- throne
- atone
- clone
- crone
- prone
- depone
- hone
- loan
- cologne
- condone
- disenthrone
- disown
- eau de cologne
- enthrone
- groan
- intone
- roan
- Sloan
- Sloane
- thrown
- unknown
- bemoan
- cobblestone
- Copplestone
- grown
- joan
- known
- none
- pension
- phone
- postpone
- redstone
- sone
- Stallone
- answer phone
- arthron
- beknown
- cauterizing stone
- compone
- crosne
- crown
- cuboidal bone
- cuttlefish bone
- Ediphone
- enzone
- flown
- Four Shire Stone
Questions about overgrown
- What does overgrown mean?
- Overgrown means having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden.
- What is overgrown in Malayalam?
- Overgrown in Malayalam is അമിതമായി വളർന്നു, അമിതമായി വളർന്നവർ. See Overgrown meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is overgrown?
- Overgrown is an adjective.
Words near overgrown in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: overgrown (page history and authors); overgrown (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); overgrown (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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