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overdone (root: overdo)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective overdone has 2 senses
- overdone(s = adj.all) exaggerated, overstated - represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an exaggerated opinion of oneself"
- overdone(s = adj.all) Array - cooked too long but still edible; Array
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-doneROGET 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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