Overly Definition

ōvər-lē
adverb
Too or too much; excessively.
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To an excessive degree.

Parents can be overly protective of their children.
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adjective
(obsolete) Careless; negligent; inattentive; superficial; not thorough.
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(obsolete) Excessive; too much.
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Overly Sentence Examples

  • Sometimes he was overly protective.

  • To protect you, your mind backtracks whenever you feel overwhelmed, overly stressed, mentally threatened.

  • Overly aware of his presence, Deidre stepped outside the kitchen to the breakfast counter and poured two glasses of wine.

  • I remember my own experience of staggering along under my overly ambitious pack.

  • The LCD screen seems to be overly bright on the model I looked at.

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