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oversublime

oversublime adjective: excessively sublime.

Adjective

oversublime (comparative more oversublime, superlative most oversublime)

  1. Excessively sublime.
    • In the heady early eighties, things got a little oversublime, Reader's Digest suggesting that thousands of missing children are murdered each year (it's closer to one hundred) […]1998, James Russell Kincaid, Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting, page 78

Forms of oversublime

comparativemore oversublime
superlativemost oversublime

Origin of oversublime

From over- + sublime.

Questions about oversublime

What does oversublime mean?
Oversublime means excessively sublime.
What part of speech is oversublime?
Oversublime is an adjective.

Words near oversublime in the dictionary

  1. overstuffing
  2. overstuffs
  3. overstyled
  4. overstylised
  5. overstylized
  6. oversublime
  7. oversubscribe
  8. oversubscribed
  9. oversubscriber
  10. oversubscribers
  11. oversubscribes

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