Meaning of overadjectived | Babel Free

Definitions

Having too many adjectives.

Examples

“It is [Joseph] Conrad’s earliest style, a little lush, perhaps, a little overadjectived, but already the style of a man who knew how to subordinate the individual word to the total impression—a man who would always be the master, never the servant, of words[.]”

“Yet, as he stumbles through rhapsodic and overadjectived descriptions of the wild and lonely loveliness of nature, he reminds himself that simple phrasing is best.”

“For a critic to declare these lines overadjectived and overwritten would not be a matter for surprise.”

“You’re an avid Pinterester and you can’t resist a good brunch or over-adjective’d Starbucks order.”

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