Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Too bright
Etymologies
- over- + bright (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When Evie caught sight of my pallor, the overbright, feverish glint to my eyes, she sent me home, saying she would close the kitchen a little early that afternoon.”
“Just as I was pulling on my jeans, the door flew open and Lucy burst in, face flushed, eyes overbright.”
“Instead of looking overbright, like an HDTV test pattern, her black hair, blue suit, and aquamarine ring were starting to appear washed out, almost fuzzy, more like one of those fifties movies you rent that was done by some cheaper process than Technicolor.”
“I used the phrase, "coruscating emanations of this forgotten world's overbright sun".”
“An order from Joe-Jim was not to be ignored and he had got it through his not overbright mind that an order from Ertz carried the same weight.”
“Same overbright classroom, same malevolent chairs.”
“Youre both famous, said Isabelle in the same overbright voice.”
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“Whoever it was, Paladino greeted him with an overbright tone.”
“The Hat Squad's" stylized sadism, with its skewed camera angles, overbright colors and tongue-in-cheek violence, is pure parody -- and it works.”
“Voices sound loud and hysterical, colours pulse and are overbright, and, before I know it, I find myself sitting in a bathroom in the basement smelling the soap.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘overbright’.
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It's Over: A Beginning
Terms that start with the string over-, beginning with overanxious.
Your entries are welcome.
overanxious, overachiever, oversimplified, overdone, overaccentuate, overact, overadjustment, overage, overaggressive, overalert, overalls, overambitious and 138 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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seanahan's Words
lacustrine, indubitably, masala, balustrade, arcane, gambit, bagatelle, demonstrative, epicaricacy, cacophony, archetype, picaresque and 418 more...
Tweets
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yarb ...and we found in the eerie
overbright morning that rhubarb leaves
had crusted the window.
- Peter Reading, Fall, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974 Jun 22, 2008