overdone (root: overdo)

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Verb (usu participle)
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o=ver=done

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective overdone has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

overdonea. 
     Cooked too long; overcooked.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

overdone

Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, artificial, ballyhooed, bedizened, bien cuit, big-sounding, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, done, doneness, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, histrionic, hyperbolic, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, insincere, la-di-da, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magnified, magniloquent, maniere, mannered, medium, medium-rare, meretricious, orotund, ostentatious, overacted, overcooked, overdrawn, overelaborate, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overinvolved, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstrained, overstressed, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, puffed, rhetorical, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stagy, stilted, stretched, superlative, tall, theatrical, tortuous, touted, unnatural, well-cooked, well-done

ROGET THESAURUS

overdone

Affectation

N affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism, stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan, affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting, insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental, conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.


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