Meanings
comparative more overadored · superlative most overadored
- Given too much adoration.
His childhood is spent — the old housekeeper tells me this — in the shadow of an overadored elder sister, who later dies suddenly of meningitis.
1959, Shane Martin, The third statue: a Professor Challis adventure
Origin
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overadored. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overadored
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