overlofty

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adjective

Excessively lofty.

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Meanings

adjectiveoverlofty (comparative more overlofty, superlative most overlofty)

comparative more overlofty · superlative most overlofty

  1. Excessively lofty.

    […] Prometheus Unbound would either have lost its sublimity or have collapsed to pieces because of its own overlofty conception.

    1997, Masaki Mori, Epic Grandeur: Toward a Comparative Poetics of the Epic, page 110

Origin

From over- + lofty.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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