US /ˈoʊvɚstʌft/ UK /ˈəʊvəstʌft/
adj verb Freq #65553

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    filled beyond a comfortable or useful capacity

    The page felt overstuffed with buttons, banners, and warnings.

  2. 2
    adj

    deeply padded and upholstered, especially of furniture

    He sank into an overstuffed armchair by the fire.

  3. 3
    verb

    past tense and past participle of overstuff

    They overstuffed the suitcase until the zipper broke.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · filled beyond a comfortable... overfilledcrammedpacked
2 adj · deeply padded and... paddedupholstered
3 verb · past tense and past... crammedoverfilled
Opposites
emptysparseunderfilled
Word family
Derived forms overstuffoverstuffing
Related forms stuffstuffed

Etymology

From over- + stuffed. The literal sense is filled too much; the figurative sense applies that excess to pages, products, stories, or plans.

Topics

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