overly
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3.5
- adverb
- /ˈoʊvərli/
:
demasiado
- He was overly cautious during the presentation, which made it hard for him to express his ideas.
- overly optimistic
- overly concerned
- overly ambitious
It is going to be me trying out overly sponsored products.
- It is going to be me trying out overly sponsored products.
- But then again, being overly helped is irritating.
- You guys wrote about overly edited photos on Instagram.
- I don't think it's particularly attractive to be overly glowy.
- It's just that kind of like crunchy, overly powdery type of a blush.
- Most of the time we're folk often overly focused on what we can't do.
- Don't be overly dependent on a woman.
- It's a tempting but overly simplistic way of viewing it.
- Greatest weakness probably is I can be overly obsessive sometimes.
- You seem so overly consumed with what you're doing.
- Friendships that we are not, for example, overly reliant on.
Examples
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It's a tempting but overly simplistic way of viewing it.
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However, parents can be highly involved without becoming overly involved depending on the quality of that involvement.
Academic text (1999) -
So I was never overly religious at all.
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Thank you, Bob, very much for that overly generous introduction.
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I think that I'm not overly optimistic about the future.
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Given the political reality of the times, these objectives seemed overly ambitious and optimistic.
Academic text (1990) -
You may make bad decisions because you're overly worried about regret.
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Passive learners often get overly frustrated when first attempts fail, and they sometimes quit.
Academic text (2008) -
And that type of thinking is overly simplistic and it's outdated.
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The recipe is overly complicated, requiring too many rare ingredients many people don't have.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
More than is needed or wanted
∞
1.2
More than is needed or healthy
∞
1.0
To a very great degree
320
1.0
To a large degree or too much
162
4.7
More than is wanted or expected
57
4.6
To a very great degree
46
7.1
By an amount that is too large or too small compared with what is normal
32
3.0
To a degree that is more than needed or acceptable
21
6.9
More than is reasonable or necessary
13
7.1
Very much of a good quality so it becomes a problem
7
7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
1
7.3
Much more expensive than it should be
1
8.1
Too much in a way that adds nothing useful
In a way that is more than needed
In a way that shows too much feeling or action
Antonyms
Compounds
How Excessive
Surface Forms
Morphology
overly = (transparent) = over + ly
The adverb is formed by adding the productive suffix '-ly' to 'over', yielding the clear meaning 'to an excessive degree'. [Postprocessing: moved 'over' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
The word overly comes from the part over- which means 'too much', as in overdo or overcook, plus the ending -ly that makes a word tell how something is done. So, overly means doing something 'too much' or more than is needed.