overlanguaged

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ languaged.

Adjective

overlanguaged (comparative more overlanguaged, superlative most overlanguaged)

1. (nonce word) Employing too many words; verbose.
   • 1876, James Russell Lowell, “Keats”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 322:

     That he was overlanguaged at first there can be no doubt, and in this was implied the possibility of falling back to the perfect mean of diction.

Further reading

• “overlanguaged”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.