Overfreighted

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Laden with too much freight.

    "Consider, for example, the symbolically overfreighted names she has chosen for her central characters."

Example

More examples

"Hanuman Zhang was a Chinese-Californian, reportedly with some Malay blood, who complained that forces "overfreighted" Western cultures and languages around the world; he was a visionary poetic conlanger with a great sense of humour."

Etymology

From over- + freighted.

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