Word Meanings - OVERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough. Bp. Hall. 2. Excessive; too much. Coleridge.

Related words: (words related to OVERLY)

• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• THOROUGHWORT
  See BONESET
• THOROUGH BASS
  The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.
• NEGLIGENTLY
  In a negligent manner.
• THOROUGHNESS
  The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.
• INATTENTIVE
  Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. I. Watts. Syn. -- Careless; heedless; regardless; thoughtless; negligent; remiss; inadvertent.
• THOROUGH-LIGHTED
  Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building. Gwilt.
• THOROUGHWAX
  An umbelliferous plant with perfoliate leaves. Thoroughwort.
• THOROUGH
  Through. Spenser. Shak.
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• THOROUGHLY
  In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.
• THOROUGHPIN
  A disease of the hock of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing
• THOROUGHPACED
  Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig. If she be a thoroughplaced impostor. Sir W. Scott.
• CARELESS
  1. Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted. Spenser. Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. Shak. 2. Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless. My
• THOROUGHSPED
  Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced. Swift.
• CARELESSNESS
  The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention.
• THOROUGHGOING
  1. Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete. 2. Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.
• THOROUGHSTITCH
  So as to go the whole length of any business; fully; completely. Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch. L'Estrange.
• THOROUGH-BRACE
  A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of Chaise.
• THOROUGHBRED
  Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like. -- n.