Overnourished
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Excessively nourished.
"If a part obtain really an addition of substance, not dependent on transformation or new formation, it is said to be hypertrophied. This is a new word, but it is a very convenient one. The part suffers an excess of nourishment; it is therefore hypertrophied, over-nourished. […] You may have a part over-nourished without increasing in size—the excess may be such as merely to harden it, so that in one sense induration may be an hypertrophy: but very generally, when a part is over-nourished, it acquires a considerable excess of bulk."
- 2 Overweight. euphemistic, often
"Lawn vacuums will clean up grass cuttings either as behind-the-mower units or self-propelled or push-type outfits that look like an overnourished Hoover."
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More examples"If a part obtain really an addition of substance, not dependent on transformation or new formation, it is said to be hypertrophied. This is a new word, but it is a very convenient one. The part suffers an excess of nourishment; it is therefore hypertrophied, over-nourished. […] You may have a part over-nourished without increasing in size—the excess may be such as merely to harden it, so that in one sense induration may be an hypertrophy: but very generally, when a part is over-nourished, it acquires a considerable excess of bulk."
Etymology
From over- + nourished.
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