Overadjectived
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Having too many adjectives.
"It is [Joseph] Conrad’s earliest style, a little lush, perhaps, a little overadjectived, but already the style of a man who knew how to subordinate the individual word to the total impression—a man who would always be the master, never the servant, of words[.]"
Example
More examples"It is [Joseph] Conrad’s earliest style, a little lush, perhaps, a little overadjectived, but already the style of a man who knew how to subordinate the individual word to the total impression—a man who would always be the master, never the servant, of words[.]"
Etymology
From over- + adjectived.
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