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overrough

overrough adjective: excessively rough.

Adjective

overrough

  1. Excessively rough.
    • And as many of us want the shaking now badly enough, I can thank him for it, although it is administered by an overrough and contemptuous hand.1878, A Modern Symposium: Subjects: The Soul and Future Life, page 140
    • Columbo is not wholly an evil but more an overrough and cruel man who lacks entirely the finer sensibilities which would have released Rosaura from her painful contract.2015, Fredson Thayer Bowers, Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy, 1587-1642, page 231

Origin of overrough

From over- + rough.

Words formed from overrough

Questions about overrough

What does overrough mean?
Overrough means excessively rough.
What part of speech is overrough?
Overrough is an adjective.

Words near overrough in the dictionary

  1. overrotate
  2. overrotated
  3. overrotates
  4. overrotating
  5. overrotation
  6. overrough
  7. overroughly
  8. overroughness
  9. overround
  10. overrounded
  11. overrounding

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