overlarge

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ large.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊvəˈlɑːdʒ/

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Adjective

overlarge (comparative more overlarge, superlative most overlarge)

1. Excessively large; too big; oversize.

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

   • 2020, Susan Isaacs, Takes One To Know One:

     The house felt overlarge and oversilent with just the two of us, but I was relishing the peace of the kitchen.

Adverb

overlarge (comparative more overlarge, superlative most overlarge)

1. (obsolete) Too extravagantly, overconfidently.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxxiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     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

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