overfew

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adjective

Too few; not enough.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveoverfew (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparablerareToo few; not enough.

    […] Against thyself, thyself far overfew / To front yon multitudes of rebel scheming?

    1877, Sidney Lanier, Poems, page 56
pronoun
  1. archaicrareToo few; not enough.

    "There were," said Sir James Melville, "overfew to comfort her."

    2022, Charles Williams, James I

Origin

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Chicago

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