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overidle

overidle adjective: excessively idle.

Adjective

overidle (comparative more overidle, superlative most overidle)

  1. Excessively idle.
    • The Church of England is expected to be an overidle mother, who lets her children entirely alone, because those made her who had found the Church of Rome an overbusy mother.2008, Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought (page 342)

Forms of overidle

comparativemore overidle
superlativemost overidle

Origin of overidle

From over- + idle.

Questions about overidle

What does overidle mean?
Overidle means excessively idle.
What part of speech is overidle?
Overidle is an adjective.

Words near overidle in the dictionary

  1. overidentified
  2. overidentifies
  3. overidentify
  4. overidentifying
  5. overideologization
  6. overidle
  7. Overijssel
  8. overillumination
  9. overillustrate
  10. overillustrated
  11. overillustrates

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