He's given to going overboard every time he gets a new idea.
Source: tatoeba (25067)
Overboard
//ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbɔː(ɹ)d//
Synonyms for "overboard" (2 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (1)
Related words (1)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Related terms
2 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriesTranslations
14 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- извън борда adv (over the edge, off a boat)
Danish
1 entries- over bord adv (over the edge, off a boat)
Dutch
1 entries- overboord adv (over the edge, off a boat)
French
1 entries- par-dessus bord adv (over the edge, off a boat)
German
1 entries- über Bord adv (over the edge, off a boat)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- over bord adv (over the edge, off a boat)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- over bord adv (over the edge, off a boat)
Portuguese
2 entries- borda a fora adv (over the edge, off a boat)
- exceder adv (over the edge, off a boat)
Russian
3 entries- за бо́ртом adv (over the edge, off a boat)
- за борто́м adv (over the edge, off a boat)
- за́ борт adv (over the edge, off a boat)
Swedish
2 entries- över bord adv (over the edge, off a boat)
- överbord adv (over the edge, off a boat)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
John sometimes goes overboard in drinking.
Source: tatoeba (52578)
I went overboard about the Beatles when I was young.
Source: tatoeba (265706)
He fell overboard and drowned.
Source: tatoeba (300696)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.