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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERINGENIOUS

overingenious  [ˌəʊvərɪnˈdʒiːnɪəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERINGENIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overingenious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OVERINGENIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overingenious in the English dictionary

The definition of overingenious in the dictionary is ingenious to a fault.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERINGENIOUS


aeneous
ˈiːnɪəs
aeneus
ˈiːnɪəs
arsenious
ɑːˈsiːnɪəs
carneous
ˈkɑːnɪəs
corneous
ˈkɔːnɪəs
cuneus
ˈkjuːnɪəs
eburneous
eˈbɜːnɪəs
genius
ˈdʒiːnɪəs
heterogeneous
ˌhɛtərəʊˈdʒiːnɪəs
homogeneous
ˌhəʊməˈdʒiːnɪəs
impecunious
ˌɪmpɪˈkjuːnɪəs
inhomogeneous
ɪnˌhəʊməˈdʒiːnɪəs
miscellaneous
ˌmɪsəˈleɪnɪəs
nonhomogeneous
ˌnɒnˌhəʊməˈdʒiːnɪəs
pecunious
pɪˈkjuːnɪəs
pergameneous
ˌpɜːɡəˈmiːnɪəs
ruthenious
ruːˈθiːnɪəs
selenious
sɪˈliːnɪəs
splenius
ˈspliːnɪəs
ustilagineous
ˌʌstɪləˈdʒiːnɪəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERINGENIOUS

overimaginative
overimpress
overimpressed
overindulge
overindulgence
overindulgent
overinflate
overinflation
overinform
overingenuity
overinked
overinsistent
overinsurance
overinsure
overintense
overintensity
overinvestment
overissue
overissuing

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERINGENIOUS

acrimonious
calumnious
ceremonious
delicious
disharmonious
euphonious
felonious
harmonious
ignominious
ingenious
inharmonious
insomnious
parsimonious
postliminious
querimonious
sanctimonious
sanious
simonious
symphonious
unceremonious
unharmonious

Synonyms and antonyms of overingenious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overingenious» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

overingenious
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

overingenious
570 millions of speakers

English

overingenious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overingenious
380 millions of speakers
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overingenious
280 millions of speakers

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overingenious
278 millions of speakers

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overingenious
270 millions of speakers

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overingenious
260 millions of speakers

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overingenious
220 millions of speakers

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Keterlaluan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

overingenious
180 millions of speakers

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overingenious
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

overingenious
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overingenious
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

overingenious
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overingenious
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कमाल करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

overingenious
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

overingenious
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overingenious
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

overingenious
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

overingenious
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

overingenious
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overingenious
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

overingenious
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overingenious
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overingenious

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERINGENIOUS»

The term «overingenious» is barely ever used and occupies the 208.390 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERINGENIOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overingenious

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERINGENIOUS»

Discover the use of overingenious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overingenious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Caxtoniana a Series of Essays, Life, Litterature and Manners ...
Nor do I attach any importance to the cavil of some overingenious critics, who have denied that genius in reality creates,- inasmuch as the forms it presents are only new combinations of ideas already existent. New combinations are, to. all ...
‎1864
2
Caxtoniana: a Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners
Nor do I attach any importance to the evil of some overingenious critics, who have denied that genius in reality creates, inasmuch as the forms it presents are only new combinations of ideas already existent. New combinations are, to all plain ...
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 1864
3
A Cinema of Loneliness
This may, I am afraid, sound more than a bit overingenious. But in a film as carefully structured as Taxi Driver, every shot is made to count, to be meaningful immediately or to prepare for meaning later in the work. This meaning need not A  ...
Robert Kolker, 2011
4
Love's Labour's Lost: Critical Essays
... that I have simple: simple, a foolish extravagant spitit, full of forms, figures, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions."101 In the second place, Holofernes indulges a passion for overingenious etymologies. He exclaims pompously ...
Felicia Hardison Londré, 2001
5
Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from ...
... detected in poetry from Nero's reign may be the product of overingenious interpretation on the part of present readers, "it is certain that the same kind of ingenuity was exercised by contemporaries to pick up meaning in oblique references.
Shadi Bartsch, 1994
6
Edward Said at the Limits
Without being overingenious it seems possible to say that this brave and sub- tle essay is a declaration of resistance, which, in the end, leaves us with the seri- ous question of whether there is indeed a way out of the impasse insofar as ...
Mustapha Marrouchi, 2012
7
Sanctity and Motherhood: Essays on Holy Mothers in the ...
... the temptation to be overingenious is always present. However, a shift towards a male-oriented religious ideology, probably helped or even caused by the strengthening of Germanic kingship, seems plausible; also that it was achieved at the ...
Anneke Mulder-Bakker, 2013
8
Knotted Tongues: Stuttering in History and the Quest for a Cure
... if I had incorporated her impediment into myself as a way of holding on to some part of her once she was gone. This may seem overingenious, but it made the more sense to me because, as it happens, she had also taught me how to spell.
Benson Bobrick, 2011
9
A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film
Hitchcock's elaborate maneuvers to hide the film's few cuts (so that the interior narrative will seem to consist of but one continuous shot) draw as much attention to the act of editing as Brandon draws to David's corpse, with his overingenious ...
George E. Toles, 2001
10
A Short History of Greek Literature
... so freely reflected in his tragedies. Hence the sometimes overingenious attempts of scholars (E. Delebecque and R. Goossens, among others) to ferret out endless topical allusions in his work. The only real constant is his open- mindedness.
Jacqueline de Romilly, 1985

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERINGENIOUS»

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A Masterpiece Made Manifest
Needless to say, that's not what Williams had in mind, and on paper it may sound like an overingenious directorial conceit, but in performance it ... «Wall Street Journal, Mar 10»
2
A Nation of Commentators
It is impossible to say of Rashi, as we might of a secular critic writing about a poem or novel, that he is overingenious, interpreting things that ... «Tablet Magazine, Jul 09»
3
Doing Battle With the Bard
Nor does Mr. Smith seem at ease when, in his introduction, he pelts the reader with a series of overingenious claims for Milton's relevance. «New York Sun, May 08»

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