overstructured

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adjective

Excessively structured.

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Meanings

adjectiveoverstructured (comparative more overstructured, superlative most overstructured)

comparative more overstructured · superlative most overstructured

  1. Excessively structured.

    “From an acoustical perspective, music is an overstructured language, which the brain invented and which the brain loves to hear.”

    2009 March 17, Natalie Angier, “In One Ear and Out the Other”, in New York Times

Origin

From over- + structured.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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