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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, aggrandized, amplified, artificial, ballyhooed, bedizened, bien cuit, big-sounding, convoluted, declamatory, disproportionate, done, doneness, elevated, euphuistic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, histrionic, hyperbolic, inflated, inkhorn, inordinate, insincere, la-di-da, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magnified, magniloquent, maniere, mannered, medium, medium-rare, meretricious, orotund, ostentatious, overacted, overcooked, overdrawn, overelaborate, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overinvolved, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstrained, overstressed, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, puffed, rhetorical, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stagy, stilted, stretched, superlative, tall, theatrical, tortuous, touted, unnatural, well-cooked, well-done

Dictionary Results for overdone:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

overdone
    adj 1: represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an
           exaggerated opinion of oneself" [syn: exaggerated,
           overdone, overstated]
    2: cooked too long but still edible

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Overdo \O`ver*do"\, v. t. [imp. Overdid; p. p. Overdone; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Overdoing.]
   1. To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing;
      to exaggerate; to carry too far.
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            Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to
      overdo one's strength.
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   3. To surpass; to excel. [R.] --Tennyson.
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   4. To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

overdone \o`ver*done"\, a.
   Cooked too long; overcooked.
   [PJC]

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