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单词 overly
释义
overly
adverb
uk
/ˈəʊ.vəl.i/us
/ˈoʊ.vɚ.li/
(alsoover)
too; very:
太；非常；过度地，极度地
Earliersalesforecastswere overlyoptimistic.早先的销售预测过于乐观了。
Hisfilmshave beencriticizedfor being overlyviolent.人们批评他的电影过于暴力。
Synonyms
excessively
too
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Too much and unnecessary
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  • immoderately
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  • pleonastic
  • plethora
  • proliferation
  • redundancy
  • weighsomeone/somethingdown
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(Definition ofoverlyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

overly| American Dictionary

overly
adverb[not gradable]
us
/ˈoʊ·vər·li/
too; very:
Salesforecastswere overlyoptimistic.
(Definition ofoverlyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoverly

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Fascinating and moving in places andoverlytechnical in others.
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The fact that these disorders wax and wane despite optimal drug treatments suggests that the popular concept of "brain disease" isoverlystatic and reductionistic.
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The conditions for ministerial restraint equilibria are somewhat more restrictive than when the reshuffle regime is exogenously determined, but notoverlyso.
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Authentic artists are seen as talented, creative, and notoverlyconcerned with short-term success, obtained by any means and at any cost.
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However, the course charted so far may beoverlyambitious.
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Overlybroad conclusions will be retracted as genetic heterogeneity and environmentally caused variants arise.
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As this analysis unfolds, however, crucial variables often appearoverlysimplified and somewhat static, hindering analysis of their interactions.
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Further, these funds may distort compensation profiles and create incentives for the inclusion ofoverlyrisky assets in a pension portfolio.
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Similarly, parents who are understandably worried about the influence of older peers in such neighborhoods may beoverlyrestrictive and harsh in parenting their offspring.
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This makes the novel soundoverlybusy, if not rather tediously postmodern; but somehow it all manages to work.
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How can we improve upon our current "muddling through" while incorporating the well-founded critiques ofoverlyrationalist approaches?
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Ten years after the peace accords, the judicial system remained weak, inefficient, antiquated,overlypartisan, and subject to corruption.
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Ethnic-based humor was still allowed - even encouraged - as long as it was notoverlyvicious or two-dimensional in its treatment.
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Though they concede that most minimum standards areoverlyconservative, they insist that this comfortable margin of error ensures that false identification will never occur.
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These obstacles and traps undermineoverlyrigid classifications and cause their failure.
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