overlarge

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UK/əʊvəˈlɑːdʒ/

adjective

Excessively large; too big; oversize.

“After a couple of years without pruning, the shrub had grown overlarge and completely obscured the window.”

Similar
too largelargebig
Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveoverlarge (comparative more overlarge, superlative most overlarge)

comparative more overlarge · superlative most overlarge

  1. Excessively large; too big; oversize.

    After a couple of years without pruning, the shrub had grown overlarge and completely obscured the window.

    1 more example

    The house felt overlarge and oversilent with just the two of us, but I was relishing the peace of the kitchen.

    2020, Susan Isaacs, Takes One To Know One
adverboverlarge (comparative more overlarge, superlative most overlarge)

comparative more overlarge · superlative most overlarge

  1. obsoleteToo extravagantly, overconfidently.

    I will doo with her what me lyst said Palomydes / wete yow wel sayd that knyghte thou spekest ouer large / though thou semest me to haue at auauntage / by cause thow sawest me doo bataille but late

    1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxxiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveexcessively large

Similar
too largelargebig
Also see

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishoverlarge
  2. Englishoverlarge

From Middle English overlarge, equivalent to over- + large.

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Cite this entry
APA

overlarge. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overlarge

MLA

“overlarge.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overlarge. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overlarge,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overlarge.

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