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overlarge

overlarge

1 4.7
Too big for the person or room
  • adjective
  • /ˌoʊvərˈlɑrdʒ/
translation icon : excesivamente grande
  • And almost squinting with the effort of recalling her face, he imagined her abandoned in some ornate, overlarge house, sick at heart, floundering to explain to her children, then dismantling her home to move out.
  • overlarge eyes

Examples

  • The child's overlarge size, out of proportion with the adult figures surrounding it, asserts its importance to the picture as a whole.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Six voting districts are located here, but they are almost lost in the overlarge space.

    Blog text (28)

  • Wally is wearing what appears to be an oversized officer's coat or flight jacket, his face looking small in the overlarge clothes.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • She led the way into a tiny sitting room, stuffed with overlarge furniture.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Julia's overlarge presence in the family scarcely left breathing room for Joseph and Thomas.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Leia, swinging her new lightsaber in an overlarge arc, was just a shade too slow.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Indeed, there are eight or so of us in our not-overlarge farmhouse, and, needless to say, time for serious reflection is circumscribed at best.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The door to Loial's room was a span across and more than two spans high, with an overlarge door handle in the shape of entwined vines level with Perrin's head.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • It was noted that Marianne's face was oddly triangular, sallow-skinned, and witchy; her downcast eyes were overlarge in their sockets.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Camden returned, dressed in his usual cold weather attire: jeans, sneakers, and an overlarge sweatshirt.

Synonyms

excessive
vsoverlarge
224 3.6

More than is needed or reasonable

applies specifically to being too large in size or desirability
oversized
vsoverlarge
61 2.3

Larger than normal and often too big for its use

is specifically about being unnecessarily or undesirably large
too large
vsoverlarge
31 1.0

More than what is needed or allowed

is about being larger than needed or desirable
outsize
vsoverlarge
3 4.4

Much larger than usual for its kind

is about being too large for need rather than simply unusually big
overabundant
vsoverlarge
1 5.8

More than is needed or wanted

focuses on too large in physical size rather than overproduction

Antonyms

compact
60 4.1

Small and tightly packed so it does not take much space

undersize
3.2

Smaller than usual for its kind

How Big

huge
∞ 1.0
overlarge
1 4.7
large
∞ 1.0
medium
162 1.3
small
2 1.1
tiny
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

overlarge positive

Morphology

overlarge = large (transparent) = over + large

The prefix 'over-' straightforwardly adds the meaning 'too excessively' to 'large', yielding 'too large'.

Etymology

Overlarge comes from the part over- meaning 'too much' and the word large meaning 'big'. So overlarge literally means 'too big' and is used for things that are bigger than what is needed.