overadjectived

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From over- +‎ adjectived.

Adjective

overadjectived (comparative more overadjectived, superlative most overadjectived)

  1. Having too many adjectives.
    • 1939, David Daiches, The Novel and the Modern World, Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, published 1948, page 63:
      It is Conrad’s earliest style, a little lush, perhaps, a little overadjectived, but already the style of a man who knew how to subordinate the individual word to the total impression—a man who would always be the master, never the servant, of words
    • 1975, Lewis Leary, Soundings: Some Early American Writers, Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 183:
      Yet, as he stumbles through rhapsodic and overadjectived descriptions of the wild and lonely loveliness of nature, he reminds himself that simple phrasing is best.
    • 1986, Richard Poole, Richard Hughes: Novelist, Poetry Wales Press, →ISBN, page 93:
      For a critic to declare these lines overadjectived and overwritten would not be a matter for surprise.
    • 2016, Grace Helbig, Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It, Touchstone, →ISBN, page 89:
      You’re an avid Pinterester and you can’t resist a good brunch or over-adjective’d Starbucks order.
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