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overbrown

overbrown

7.3
Having too much brown color
  • adjective
translation icon : demasiado marrón
  • She thought the painting looked overbrown and lacked vibrant colors.

Examples

  • Be careful not to let the toast get overbrown.

  • The photograph appeared overbrown due to poor lighting during the shoot.

  • The cookies turned out overbrown after being left in the oven too long.

  • The cake turned overbrown after baking for too long.

  • The cookies turned out overbrown after being left in the oven too long.

  • She thought the painting looked overbrown and lacked vibrant colors.

  • Be careful not to let the toast get overbrown.

Synonyms

hyperpigmented
vsoverbrown
  • Specialized
8.4

Darker patches on the skin caused by extra pigment

focuses specifically on an overly brown color rather than just a darker shade

Antonyms

pale
291 1.0

Has very light color and often looks sick or afraid

How Brown

overbrown
7.3
dark-brown
18 1.0
brown
939 1.0
tan
30 1.0
beige
17 1.0

Surface Forms

overbrown positive

Morphology

overbrown = brown (transparent) = over + brown

Clear combination of the productive prefix 'over-' meaning 'excessively' and the adjective 'brown', yielding a directly inferable meaning.

Etymology

The word overbrown comes from the prefix over- meaning 'too much' and the color brown, so it describes something that is 'too brown' or has too much brown color.