overexplanatory
English
editEtymology
editFrom over- + explanatory.
Adjective
editoverexplanatory (comparative more overexplanatory, superlative most overexplanatory)
- Excessively explanatory.
- 2009 September 22, Mike Hale, “Amateur Detectives Meet Unidentified Victims”, in New York Times[1]:
- Its look and pace closely resemble those of “Without a Trace”; it puts its dead victims on screen to observe the action, a device borrowed from “Cold Case”; and it has the stilted, overexplanatory dialogue that somehow characterizes every series in the Bruckheimer canon, regardless of show runner or writers.