overdone
- adjective
- /ˌoʊvərˈdʌn/
- Her makeup for the party was a bit overdone, making her look more like a clown than elegant.
To be perfect is too cliche, overdone, and outdated.
- To be perfect is too cliche, overdone, and outdated.
- I love to see it, but also I feel like it's overdone.
- So he's he's a big example allegedly because it looks like it's overdone.
- He plays a straight man with all the same overdone camp that straight men often portray gay men with.
- In fact, you know, again, I'm not an advocate for the massive and I think horrendously overdone use of medications.
- And so you always have it overdone in always the same way.
Examples
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So it's really natural and not overdone, but, you know, hydrating and fancy.
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To be perfect is too cliche, overdone, and outdated.
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Do you think this is overdone or just right?
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That version's a bit overdone for me, even by my standards, but yeah.
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But I was surprised at how not overdone Samsung made their game mode.
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The stories are just so bad and so fake and staged and overdone that they're good.
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The movie was entertaining, but the special effects were so overdone that they distracted from the story.
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The presentation was good, but the enthusiasm felt overdone and insincere to the audience.
Synonyms
More than is needed or reasonable
Very extreme or exaggerated in a way that seems unreasonable
Exaggerated and showy in style or speech
Made to seem much better than it really is
Too full of air or seen as more important than it really is
Made to look bigger or more important than it really is
Speech or writing that is too dramatic and emotional
Looks bigger or more important than it really is
Saying something with too much force so it sounds fake
Makes something seem bigger or more important than it really is
Too decorated so it looks showy and not natural
Antonyms
How Exaggerated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overdone breaks into over- 'too much' and done 'made' or 'finished', and you can see over- in words like overreact or overcook. So, when something is called overdone it means it is made too strong or too extreme, in other words, exaggerated.