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overuniform

overuniform adjective: too uniform; not sufficiently varied.

Adjective

overuniform (comparative more overuniform, superlative most overuniform)

  1. Too uniform; not sufficiently varied.
    • It is some pleasure to command, were it but a mole-hill, and a delight to be obaied. But it is a pleasure over-uniforme and languishing.1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.9
    • Throughout the 1990s, the Japan Business Federation and Japanese Association of Business Executives advocated deregulation and decentralization to what they saw as an over-uniform and centralized education system.2008, Keith A Nitta, The Politics of Structural Education Reform

Forms of overuniform

comparativemore overuniform
superlativemost overuniform

Origin of overuniform

From over- + uniform.

Questions about overuniform

What does overuniform mean?
Overuniform means too uniform; not sufficiently varied.
What part of speech is overuniform?
Overuniform is an adjective.

Words near overuniform in the dictionary

  1. overtype
  2. overtyped
  3. overtypes
  4. overtyping
  5. overun
  6. overuniform
  7. overunionized
  8. overuns
  9. overurbanization
  10. overurge
  11. overurged

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