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overmarinated

overmarinated adjective: excessively marinated.

Adjective

overmarinated (comparative more overmarinated, superlative most overmarinated)

  1. Excessively marinated.
    • Too big at times: “City on Fire” can occasionally feel overmarinated in research (the author having seemingly inhaled whole books like “Love Goes to Buildings on Fire, ” Will Hermes’s terrific portrait of the New York music scene in the mid-70s), and the reader can’t help feeling that a few...2015 October 5, Michiko Kakutani, “Review: ‘City on Fire,’ Garth Risk Hallberg’s Novel of New York in the Bad Old Days”, in New York Times

Forms of overmarinated

comparativemore overmarinated
superlativemost overmarinated

Origin of overmarinated

From over- + marinated.

Questions about overmarinated

What does overmarinated mean?
Overmarinated means excessively marinated.
What part of speech is overmarinated?
Overmarinated is an adjective.

Words near overmarinated in the dictionary

  1. overmarching
  2. overmargin
  3. overmargined
  4. overmargining
  5. overmargins
  6. overmarinated
  7. overmark
  8. overmarked
  9. overmarket
  10. overmarketed
  11. overmarketing

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