Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Employing too many words; diffuse.
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- adjective nonce word Employing too many words;
verbose .
Etymologies
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over- + languaged
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Examples
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That he was overlanguaged at first there can be no doubt, and in this was implied the possibility of falling back to the perfect mean of diction.
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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