overlarge

adj, adv — 2 senses

overlarge

adj

UK /əʊvəˈlɑːdʒ/

Etymology From Middle English overlarge, equivalent to over- + large.

1

Excessively large; too big; oversize.

After a couple of years without pruning, the shrub had grown overlarge and completely obscured the window.
The house felt overlarge and oversilent with just the two of us, but I was relishing the peace of the kitchen.2020, Susan Isaacs, Takes One To Know One:

Derived terms: overlargely, overlargeness

overlarge

adv

Etymology From Middle English overlarge, equivalent to over- + large.

1

Obsolete Too extravagantly, overconfidently.

I will doo with her what me lyst said Palomydes / wete yow wel sayd that knyghte thou spekest ouer large / though thou semest me to haue at auauntage / by cause thow sawest me doo bataille but late1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxxiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

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