Dictionary Definition
overmuch adj : very great in quantity;
overabundant; "showed overmuch affection" n : a quantity that is
more than what is appropriate; "four-year-olds have an
overabundance of energy"; "we received an inundation of email"
[syn: overabundance, overmuchness, superabundance] adv :
more than necessary; "she eats too much"; "let's not blame them
overmuch" [syn: too much]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Determiner
- very much; too much
- 1999, General Sir William Jackson, Britain's defence dilemma: An inside view (rethinking British defence policy in the post-imperial era)
- This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a bit much, abandon, abandoned, boundless, boundlessness, egregious, egregiousness, enormous, enormousness, exaggerated, exaggeration, excess, excessive, excessively, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, exorbitant, exorbitantly, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagant, extreme, extremely, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulous, fabulousness, fancy, giantism, gigantic, gigantism, gluttonous, gluttony, high, hyperbole, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, hypertrophy, immensely, immoderacy, immoderate, immoderately, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, incontinent, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinate, inordinately, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperate, intemperately, intemperateness,
lavish, monstrous, monstrousness, nimiety, out of bounds, out of
sight, outrageous,
outrageously,
outrageousness,
over, overabundance, overabundant, overbig, overbounteous, overcopious, overdeveloped, overdevelopment,
overexuberant,
overflow, overfull, overgenerous, overgreat, overgreatness, overgrown, overgrowth, overindulgence, overkill, overlarge, overlargeness, overlavish, overliberal, overluxuriant, overly, overmuchness, overnumerous, overplenteous, overplentiful, overplenty, overplus, overpopulated, overpopulous, overprolific, overweening, overweeningly, plentiful, plethora, plethoric, prodigal, pullulating, radicalism, riotous, steep, stiff, superabundant, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, swarming, teeming, too, too much, too-muchness,
too-too, unbridled,
unconscionable,
unconscionableness,
unconscionably,
undue, undueness, unduly, unreasonable, unreasonableness,
unreasonably,
unrestrained,
unrestrainedness