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overlanguaged

overlanguaged adjective: employing too many words; verbose.

Adjective

overlanguaged (comparative more overlanguaged, superlative most overlanguaged)

  1. (nonce-word) Employing too many words; verbose.
    • That he was overlanguaged at first there can be no doubt, and in this was implied the possibility of falling back to the perfect mean of diction.1876, James Russell Lowell, “Keats”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 322

Forms of overlanguaged

comparativemore overlanguaged
superlativemost overlanguaged

Origin of overlanguaged

From over- + languaged.

Questions about overlanguaged

What does overlanguaged mean?
Overlanguaged means employing too many words; verbose.
What part of speech is overlanguaged?
Overlanguaged is an adjective.

Words near overlanguaged in the dictionary

  1. overlanded
  2. overlander
  3. overlanders
  4. overlanding
  5. overlands
  6. overlanguaged
  7. overlap
  8. overlap syndrome
  9. overlap syndromes
  10. overlappable
  11. overlapped

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