Overmuch
adverb
Too much or to an excessive degree.
She worries overmuch about her health.
Often appears as...
- worries overmuch
- concerns overmuch
adjective
Too great in amount or degree.
He doesn't eat an overmuch amount of food.
Often appears as...
- overmuch amount
- overmuch attention
noun
An excess or excessively large amount.
There was an overmuch of information to absorb.
Often appears as...
- overmuch of information
- overmuch of detail
adverb
Too much or to an excessive degree.
She worries overmuch about her health.
Often appears as...
- worries overmuch
- concerns overmuch
adjective
Too great in amount or degree.
He doesn't eat an overmuch amount of food.
Often appears as...
- overmuch amount
- overmuch attention
noun
An excess or excessively large amount.
There was an overmuch of information to absorb.
Often appears as...
- overmuch of information
- overmuch of detail
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Pro Tip 1/2Emotional Intensity
Use 'overmuch' to show strong feelings about the excessiveness of an action or situation.
He didn't seem to care overmuch when his team lost the game.
Pro Tip 2/2Formal Tone
'Overmuch' is more formal and less common than 'too much' in everyday language.
She did not concern herself overmuch with the trivial gossip.
Compare with
abundantexcessiveextravagantextremeinordinatenecessarilyredundantsurplus
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Quote examples
Rick Bass
American Writer
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.
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Samuel E. Morison
American Historian
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
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Arthur Eddington
British Scientist
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
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Alexander Hamilton
American Politician
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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Rick Bass
American Writer
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.
Quote examples
Samuel E. Morison
American Historian
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
Quote examples
Arthur Eddington
British Scientist
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
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Alexander Hamilton
American Politician
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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