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Definition of Overserious
1. Adjective. Excessively serious.
Definition of Overserious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overserious
Literary usage of Overserious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Famous Actor-Families in America by Montrose Jonas Moses (1906)
"... a way not known to Wallack—to the subordinates of his company, but, unfortunately,
for all concerned, not overserious in his discipline at the theatre. ..."
2. "Marse Henry": An Autobiography by Henry Watterson (1919)
"One day in White- law Reid's den in the Tribune Building he reappeared, strangely
changed—no longer the rosy- cheeked, buoyant boy—an overserious, ..."
3. Greatness in Literature: And Other Papers by William Peterfield Trent (1905)
"... more than a grain of truth, that overserious reading is one of the banes of
our self-conscious age. But this question of the Choice of Books, ..."
4. Value and Distribution: A Critical and Constructive Study by Herbert Joseph Davenport (1908)
"... technical in import, or of a nature to present overserious difficulty of
comprehension, or of a character to offer especial temptations to controversy. ..."
5. Value and Distribution: A Critical and Constructive Study by Herbert Joseph Davenport (1907)
"... technical in import, or of a nature to present overserious difficulty of
comprehension, or of a character to offer especial temptations to controversy. ..."
6. A History of American Literature, 1607-1865 by William Peterfield Trent (1908)
"Before the Revolution Franklin had become urban and cosmopolitan enough to develop
an admirable faculty for humour which he employed against his overserious ..."
7. The Normal Child and Primary Education by Beatrice Chandler Gesell, Arnold Gesell (1912)
"Atmosphere, of course, is all-important, for the sense of humor will not thrive,
except as a kind of instinctive rebellion, in the overserious schoolroom ..."
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