overlarge
Excessively large; too big; oversize.
Adjective
- Excessively large; too big; oversize.
- After a couple of years without pruning, the shrub had grown overlarge and completely obscured the window.
- The house felt overlarge and oversilent with just the two of us, but I was relishing the peace of the kitchen. - 2020, Susan Isaacs, Takes One To Know One:
Origin
From Middle English overlarge, equivalent to over- + large.
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Adverb
- Too extravagantly, overconfidently.
- 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 - 1485, Sir Thomas...