overfamiliar
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7.5
- adjective
- /ˌoʊvərfəˈmɪljər/
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demasiado familiar
- Her overfamiliar manner made everyone uncomfortable during the formal meeting.
Examples
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Then he takes a scrap of paper out of his breast pocket and reads: "The husband becomes overfamiliar with his wife and tires of her.
Fiction book (2002) -
"Sparky gripped the Shade's right bicep in an overfamiliar manner and fluttered her long lashes at him.
Fiction book (2002) -
We're all familiar with the time-lapse technique in videos, perhaps a little overfamiliar, so it's good when someone messes things up a bit, which is exactly what director Philip Stockton does in his short eulogy to New York called New York: Night and Day.
Blog text (10) -
The waiter was too overfamiliar, calling me by my first name even though we had just met.
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Some guests felt the host's overfamiliar comments crossed a line at the party.
Synonyms
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5.2
Friendly in a relaxed way like a close friend
Questions that ask about someone's private life and feel intrusive
Very warm and welcoming to people
How Familiar
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overfamiliar is made of over- ('too much') and familiar, a word related to family that means 'like family' or 'known'. So to be overfamiliar is to be 'too friendly' or informal, acting as if someone is family when that is not appropriate.