too

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Too much and unnecessary
ado
be up to your neck (in something)idiom
bellyful
binge
carry/take coals to Newcastleidiom
drown
gush
heavy-handed
hyper
immoderate
immoderately
inappeasable
infest
plenty
pleonasm
pleonastic
plethora
proliferation
unwarranted
weigh someone/something down

overly | American Dictionary

overly
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˈoʊ·vər·li/
too; very:
Sales forecasts were overly optimistic.

Examples of overly

overly
Fascinating and moving in places and overly technical in others.
The fact that these disorders wax and wane despite optimal drug treatments suggests that the popular concept of "brain disease" is overly static and reductionistic.
The conditions for ministerial restraint equilibria are somewhat more restrictive than when the reshuffle regime is exogenously determined, but not overly so.
Authentic artists are seen as talented, creative, and not overly concerned with short-term success, obtained by any means and at any cost.
However, the course charted so far may be overly ambitious.
Overly broad conclusions will be retracted as genetic heterogeneity and environmentally caused variants arise.
As this analysis unfolds, however, crucial variables often appear overly simplified and somewhat static, hindering analysis of their interactions.
Further, these funds may distort compensation profiles and create incentives for the inclusion of overly risky assets in a pension portfolio.
Similarly, parents who are understandably worried about the influence of older peers in such neighborhoods may be overly restrictive and harsh in parenting their offspring.
This makes the novel sound overly busy, if not rather tediously postmodern; but somehow it all manages to work.
How can we improve upon our current "muddling through" while incorporating the well-founded critiques of overly rationalist approaches?
Ten years after the peace accords, the judicial system remained weak, inefficient, antiquated, overly partisan, and subject to corruption.
Ethnic-based humor was still allowed - even encouraged - as long as it was not overly vicious or two-dimensional in its treatment.
Though they concede that most minimum standards are overly conservative, they insist that this comfortable margin of error ensures that false identification will never occur.
These obstacles and traps undermine overly rigid classifications and cause their failure.
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