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overdone

adjective

1 overdone

Represented as greater than is true or reasonable.

synonyms: exaggerated, overstated.

Roget 855: affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum; canting, insincere.    not natural, unnatural; ... show more

2 overdone

Cooked too long but still edible.


Moby thesaurus: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, artificial, ballyhooed, bedizened, bien cuit, big-sounding, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, done, doneness, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant ... show more.

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overdo

verb

1 overdo

Do something to an excessive degree.

synonym: exaggerate.

Roget 682: be active etc. adj.; busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, ... show more

Roget 855: affect, act a part, put on; give oneself airs etc. (arrogance) 885; boast etc. 884; coquet; simper, mince, attitudinize, ... show more

Roget 641: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; ... show more

Dutch: overdrijven


Moby thesaurus: aggrandize, amplify, ballyhoo, build up, burlesque, caricature, carry to excess, carry too far, do to death, draw the longbow, exaggerate, exhaust, fatigue, go overboard, go the limit, go to extremes, go too far, go whole hog, hyperbolize, know no bounds ... show more.

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