Overadjectived

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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[.]"

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"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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