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overprecious

overprecious adjective: excessively precious; contrived, artificial.

Adjective

overprecious (comparative more overprecious, superlative most overprecious)

  1. Excessively precious; contrived, artificial.
    • The ethos is all too easily misunderstood as an overprecious, bloodless, mindless civilization.1969, Jōchi Daigaku, Monumenta Nipponica
    • But it was just a gift shop selling overprecious reproductions at outrageous prices — brass candle snuffers at $28, reproduction apothecary jars at $35...1989, Bill Bryson, The lost continent: travels in small-town America

Forms of overprecious

comparativemore overprecious
superlativemost overprecious

Origin of overprecious

From over- + precious.

Questions about overprecious

What does overprecious mean?
Overprecious means excessively precious; contrived, artificial.
What part of speech is overprecious?
Overprecious is an adjective.

Words near overprecious in the dictionary

  1. overpreached
  2. overpreaches
  3. overpreaching
  4. overprecaution
  5. overprecautions
  6. overprecious
  7. overprecise
  8. overprecisely
  9. overpreciseness
  10. overprecision
  11. overpredict

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