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Overlarge

//əʊvəˈlɑːdʒ// adj, adv

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Excessively large; too big; oversize.

    "After a couple of years without pruning, the shrub had grown overlarge and completely obscured the window."

Adjective
  1. 1
    excessively large wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Too extravagantly, overconfidently. obsolete

    "I will doo with her what me lyst said Palomydes / wete yow wel sayd that knyghte thou spekest ouer large / though thou semest me to haue at auauntage / by cause thow sawest me doo bataille but late"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English overlarge, equivalent to over- + large.

Etymology 2

From Middle English overlarge, equivalent to over- + large.

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