Meanings
- not comparableDocumented to an excessive degree.
Aarsleff's first published essay on this topic, "Leibniz on Locke on Language" ... remains important, despite being overdocumented and awkwardly structured.
1984, Brian Vickers, Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 1582 more examples
King, by contrast, is all but overdocumented; after schooling, he went west as a surveyor, summing up 10 years of work in two books, including the 815-page “Systematic Geology,” which told, one historian said, “a story only a trifle less dramatic than Genesis.”
2009 March 8, Baz Dreisinger, “A Transracial Man”, in New York TimesThe sterile horrors of the burbs are overdocumented, to say the least, but Perrotta, an expert with precocious youngsters (Election), is never shrill and only slightly vicious in satirizing his infantilized grown-ups.
2004 April 6, Dennis Lim, “Much Better Than That Thing With Kevin What's-His-Name”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Germanic*uber
- Old Englishofer-
- Middle Englishover-
- Englishover-
- Englishdocumented
- Englishoverdocumented
From over- + documented.
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