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overbrown

7.3

Having too much brown color

adjective

: 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

301 1.0

Has very light color and often looks sick or afraid

How Brown

overbrown

7.3

dark-brown

29 1.0

brown

834 1.0

tan

76 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.