overcultivated

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adjective

Excessively cultivated.

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Meanings

adjectiveovercultivated (comparative more overcultivated, superlative most overcultivated)

comparative more overcultivated · superlative most overcultivated

  1. Excessively cultivated.

    The overcultivated, emotionally constrained New York of Edith Wharton and Henry James — who appears in the novel as a force for debilitating self-control — resounds in the morality tale of Theodore’s demise.

    2007 September 16, Sophie Gee, “The Red Badge of Scandal”, in New York Times

Origin

From over- + cultivated.

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APA

overcultivated. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcultivated

MLA

“overcultivated.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcultivated. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overcultivated,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcultivated.

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