Definitions for Overly

Overly o·ver·ly

Spelling: [oh-ver-lee]
IPA: /ˈoʊ vər li/

Overly is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in Overly (elorvy).

Definitions for Overly

adverb

  1. excessively; too:

Origin of Overly

before 1050; Middle English; Old English oferlīce. See over, -ly

Examples for Overly

He's not overly much pleased with you this minute, doctor, and that's the truth.

Also I have heard that they are in debt to our landlady, as well as that she is not overly kind to them.

The fellow did not seem to be overly anxious to keep his watchfulness a secret.

To call them mediocre, uninspiring, and stale would be overly generous.

“This is not about saving Christmas from the secularists, but rather from overly conscientious Christians,” Wilson writes.

Through it all, he remained calm; impatient, perhaps, but not overly so.

Only one who was overly technical would have noted the circumstance at all.

Third parties in turn quibbled with his accounts, and he was irritated, but not overly so.

Suu Kyi also said at a press conference last Wednesday that the U.S. “has been overly optimistic about the reform process.”

Hopefully not overly close, but we talk about it in the episode how similar it is.

Word Value for Overly
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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