overabundant
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5.8
- adjective
- /ˌoʊvərəˈbʌndənt/
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sobreabundante
- They had to confront what a dark, dense, overabundant place might have hidden in it.
- overabundant and incomprehensible
We had all this friction that prevented overabundant consumption, excessive consumption, consumerism.
- We had all this friction that prevented overabundant consumption, excessive consumption, consumerism.
Examples
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Throughout the United States and Canada, pockets of citizens want to reduce cormorant populations they deem overabundant for the same reasons: destruction of vegetation, unfair competition with more-valued species, and overindulgence in fish.
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I get up fairly early and have an overabundant physical energy in the early hours, even without caffeine, which I gave up decades ago.
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I don't understand the mechanism, but it's overabundant presence causes damage to the cells in some way, shape or form.
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But in her wounds, we have life because it is in the wounded spirit that we see God's love, overabundant and outpouring on our behalf.
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However, an overabundant supply of a resource or toxic substances associated with some producers can decrease the diversity of the consumer community across the surface interface.
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Osteoblastomas contain ample amounts of osteoid produced by overabundant osteoblasts.
Academic text (2006) -
Blade Runner (1982), on the other hand, saw the future as a place of overabundant technological human achievement, with cluttered cities and a claustrophobic, discount-shopping corporate attitude.
Blog text (29) -
It seems that the simplest atoms—hydrogen and helium—were proving to be troublesomely overabundant.
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The garden was filled with overabundant flowers, making it a beautiful sight in spring.
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After the harvest, the farmers found they had an overabundant supply of apples this year.
Synonyms
224
3.6
More than is needed or reasonable
22
7.0
More than what is needed or useful
15
2.9
Full of a lot of something, often too much
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3.4
More than what is needed or wanted
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5.5
Contains more goods than people want to buy
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8.4
Much more of something than is needed
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9.9
Too full or containing too much of something
Having more of something than people need or can buy
Antonyms
How Abundant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overabundant combines over- meaning 'too much' and abundant, from a root meaning 'to overflow' and seen in words like abound and abundance. So overabundant gives the image of something 'too full' or 'overflowing', which is why it means more than is needed.