overcultivated
English
editEtymology
editFrom over- + cultivated.
Adjective
editovercultivated (comparative more overcultivated, superlative most overcultivated)
- Excessively cultivated.
- 2007 September 16, Sophie Gee, “The Red Badge of Scandal”, in New York Times[1]:
- The overcultivated, emotionally constrained New York of Edith Wharton and Henry James — who appears in the novel as a force for debilitating self-control — resounds in the morality tale of Theodore’s demise.