Definitions for overt

overt o·vert

Spelling: [oh-vurt, oh-vurt]
IPA: /oʊˈvɜrt, ˈoʊ vɜrt/

Overt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in overt (eortv).

Definitions for overt

adjective

  1. open to view or knowledge; not concealed or secret:
  2. Heraldry. (of a device, as a purse) represented as open:

Origin of overt

1275-1325; Middle English Old French, past participle of ouvrir to open Vulgar Latin *ōperīre, for Latin aperīre

Examples for overt

The charts now featured the likes of Limp Bizkit, a rap-metal band whose misogyny was so overt as to be comical.

She seemed in nowise embarrassed by these overt endearments.

Also that hankering after an overt or practical effect seems to me an apostasy.

Poverty, alienation, estrangement, continuously aggravated by racism, overt and institutional.

I suppose I may say they idolised him, but I never caught them giving him an overt glance.

And yet the subtle and overt use, the constant and consistence presence of sex, is hotter to me than some XXX-rated flicks.

At the first overt act of resistance, let them give the word to fire.

Black-white relations had signifiers other than the overt events of the civil rights movement.

On the other hand, the best results may take years for overt appearance.

Instead, the film focuses specifically on Hayward and her family, stripped of overt political messages or loaded debates.

Word Value for overt
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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