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overintense

overintense adjective: excessively intense.

Adjective

overintense (comparative more overintense, superlative most overintense)

  1. Excessively intense.
    • It is as much a crack as the one which is made in the glasa when an overintense charge breaks through the side of a Leyden jar. The only difference in the two cases is that the crack remains in the glass, but is immediately effaced in the fluid and movable substance of the air.1856, Robert Brown, Science for All, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, page 379
    • He had delighted in Adrian, adored him, admired him; and somehow he had managed always to preserve a semblance of a not overintense interest and affection; he remembered having to force himself to leave the house, when all he wanted to do was to stay and delight in his son, and he remembered the...1952, Helen Marjorie Fowler, The Intruder, Morrow, page 77

Examples of overintense in a sentence

  • With the help of his fiancée his interests changed and he tried to free himself from the overintense family life.1954, Paul J. Moses, The Voice of Neurosis, Grune & Stratton, page 100:
  • Everyone knows how often a photograph suggests a "lunar" quality: the dark skies, the empty shadows, and the overintense high values (see Fig. 11).1963, Ansel Adams, Natural-Light Photography, Morgan and Morgan, page 14:

Forms of overintense

comparativemore overintense
superlativemost overintense

Origin of overintense

From over- + intense.

Words formed from overintense

Questions about overintense

What does overintense mean?
Overintense means excessively intense.
How do you use overintense in a sentence?
With the help of his fiancée his interests changed and he tried to free himself from the overintense family life.
What part of speech is overintense?
Overintense is an adjective.

Words near overintense in the dictionary

  1. overintellectualizations
  2. overintellectualize
  3. overintellectualized
  4. overintellectualizes
  5. overintellectualizing
  6. overintense
  7. overintensely
  8. overintensification
  9. overintensities
  10. overintensity
  11. overinterest

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