overly
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[change]Adverb
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- If someone or something is overly sensitive, critical, large, etc., they are more so than appropriate.
- Synonyms: too and excessively
- Parents can be overly protective of their children.
- If someone or something is not overly concerned, bright, fond etc., they are not very much so.
- Synonym: very
- I'm not overly fond of children.