overreading
overreading is the present participle and gerund of overread.
Meaning of overread
Verb
overread (third-person singular simple present overreads, present participle overreading, simple past and past participle overread)
- To read over, or peruse.
- Over the dore thus written she did spye, / Bee bold: she oft and oft it over-red, / Yet could not find what sence it figured […].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- To interpret something to a greater degree, or in a more positive way, than appropriate; read in too much depth; overinterpret; overanalyze.
- To overread Plath's houses is to transform these biographical documents into spatial ones.2005, Hilde Heynen, Gulsum Baydar, Negotiating Domesticity
- To read too much or excessively.
Noun
overreading (plural overreadings)
- An instance of something being overread.
- Antonyms:
- underreading
Antonyms of overreading
Forms of overreading
| plural | overreadings |
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Questions about overreading
- What does overreading mean?
- Overreading means an instance of something being overread.
- What is overreading the present participle and gerund of?
- Overreading is the present participle and gerund of overread.
- What part of speech is overreading?
- Overreading is a noun.
- What is the plural of overreading?
- The plural of overreading is overreadings.
Words near overreading in the dictionary
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