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Definition of Overfamiliar
1. Adjective. Taking undue liberties. "Young women disliked the overfamiliar tone he took with them"
Definition of Overfamiliar
1. Adjective. common or repeated to the point of being unnoticed or annoying ¹
2. Adjective. (context: Used with “with”) so acquainted with something, that one doesn't notice it, or is annoyed by it ¹
3. Adjective. overly friendly or intimate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overfamiliar
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overfamiliar
Literary usage of Overfamiliar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"In his collection April Airs (1916"), although the strength is diluted and the
music somewhat thinned, the old magic persists; the spell may be overfamiliar ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"There is no such response within us to unreal representation, whether simply
arbitrary (unfamiliar) or conventional (overfamiliar) ..."
3. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"In his collection April Airs (1916), although the strength is diluted and the
music somewhat thinned, the old magic persists; the spell may be overfamiliar ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1887)
"But it is plain that he had a genuine contempt for his own written style: he says
that on the one side he errs by being " overfamiliar and ..."
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