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overshort

overshort adjective: excessively short.

Adjective

overshort (comparative more overshort, superlative most overshort)

  1. Excessively short.

Forms of overshort

comparativemore overshort
superlativemost overshort

Origin of overshort

From over- + short.

Questions about overshort

What does overshort mean?
Overshort means excessively short.
What part of speech is overshort?
Overshort is an adjective.

Words near overshort in the dictionary

  1. overshoots
  2. overshop
  3. overshopped
  4. overshopping
  5. overshops
  6. overshort
  7. overshorten
  8. overshortened
  9. overshortening
  10. overshortens
  11. overshot

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