overfast

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adjective

Too quick.

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Meanings

adjectiveoverfast (comparative more overfast, superlative most overfast)

comparative more overfast · superlative most overfast

  1. Too quick.
adverboverfast (comparative more overfast, superlative most overfast)

comparative more overfast · superlative most overfast

  1. Too quickly.

    1914-1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear MacDonald shook his head. “Man, you are surely travelling overfast,” said he. “I have heard no evidence yet that any stranger was ever in the house at all.”

verboverfast (third-person singular simple present overfasts, present participle overfasting, simple past and past participle overfasted)

present singular third person overfasts · participle present overfasting · participle past overfasted · past overfasted

  1. intransitiveTo refrain from food to an excessive degree.

    […] overfasting could make a monk too exhausted to pray […]

    2023, Jamie Kreiner, The Wandering Mind

Origin

From over- + fast.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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