Word.ws English Dictionary

overmany

overmany pronoun: too many.

Pronoun

overmany

  1. Too many.
    • Have we not God hys wrath, for Goddes wrath, and a thousand of the same stampe, wherein the corrupte orthography in the most hath been the sole or principal cause of corrupte prosodye in overmany?1580, Gabriel Harvey, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
    • “Now, nominations for the council – but not over-many,” the Chancellor moved.2012, Nigel Tranter, Lion's Whelp

Adjective

overmany (not comparable)

  1. Too many.
    • Three or four men noticed my condition; and, evidently setting it down to the results of over many pegs, charitably endeavoured to draw me apart from the rest of the loungers.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 15

Origin of overmany

From Middle English over-many, overmany, ovyrmany; equivalent to over- + many. Compare overmuch.

Questions about overmany

What does overmany mean?
Overmany means too many.
What part of speech is overmany?
Overmany can be a pronoun or an adjective.

Words near overmany in the dictionary

  1. overmantles
  2. overmanure
  3. overmanured
  4. overmanures
  5. overmanuring
  6. overmany
  7. overmap
  8. overmaps
  9. overmarch
  10. overmarched
  11. overmarches

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overmany (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “overmany.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overmany. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.