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Webster 1913 Edition


Overlarge

O′ver-large′

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Adj.
Too large; too great.

Webster 1828 Edition


Overlarge

OVERL'ARGE

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Adj.
Too large; too great.

Definition 2024


overlarge

overlarge

English

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.

Adverb

overlarge (comparative more overlarge, superlative most overlarge)

  1. (obsolete) Too extravagantly, overconfidently.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter 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