| ADVERB | all | overmuch, too much | more than necessary |
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| ADJECTIVE | all | overmuch | very great in quantity |
| NOUN | attribute | overmuch, overabundance, overmuchness, superabundance | a quantity that is more than what is appropriate |
| Meaning | Very great in quantity; overabundant. | |
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| Example | "showed overmuch affection" | |
| Broader | much | (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent |
| Spanish | demasiado | |
| Nouns | overmuchness | a quantity that is more than what is appropriate |
| Meaning | A quantity that is more than what is appropriate. | |
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| Synonyms | overabundance, overmuchness, superabundance | |
| Narrower | bellyful | An undesirable overabundance |
| excess, surplus, surplusage, nimiety | A quantity much larger / larger than is needed | |
| glut, oversupply, surfeit | The quality of being so overabundant that prices / prices fall | |
| Broader | abundance, copiousness, teemingness | The property of a more than adequate quantity or supply |
| Spanish | sobreabundancia, superabundancia | |
| Catalan | sobreabundància, superabundància | |
| Meaning | More than necessary. | |
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| Example | "let's not blame them overmuch" | |
| Synonym | too much | |
| Spanish | demasiado, en demasía, excesivamente | |
| Catalan | massa | |
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