Meanings
adjectiveoverprecious (comparative more overprecious, superlative most overprecious)
comparative more overprecious · superlative most overprecious
- Excessively precious; contrived, artificial.
The ethos is all too easily misunderstood as an overprecious, bloodless, mindless civilization.
1969, Jōchi Daigaku, Monumenta Nipponica1 more example
But it was just a gift shop selling overprecious reproductions at outrageous prices — brass candle snuffers at $28, reproduction apothecary jars at $35...
1989, Bill Bryson, The lost continent: travels in small-town America
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