Antonyms for overly

Grammar : Adv

Spell : oh-ver-lee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈoʊ vər li

Definition of overly

Origin : "excessively," Old English oferlice; see over + -ly (2). Often "regarded as an Americanism in the U.K." [OED].

adv excessively

Example sentences :

He's not overly much pleased with you this minute, doctor, and that's the truth.
Extract from : « General John Regan » by George A. Birmingham

Through it all, he remained calm; impatient, perhaps, but not overly so.
Extract from : « Starman's Quest » by Robert Silverberg

Only one who was overly technical would have noted the circumstance at all.
Extract from : « Sundry Accounts » by Irvin S. Cobb

The fellow did not seem to be overly anxious to keep his watchfulness a secret.
Extract from : « Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone » by G. Harvey Ralphson

Also I have heard that they are in debt to our landlady, as well as that she is not overly kind to them.
Extract from : « Poor Folk » by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was all of the same unesthetic barrenness, and not overly clean at that.
Extract from : « A Son of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland

She was not well and her mind did not appear to be overly bright.
Extract from : « Dave Porter and the Runaways » by Edward Stratemeyer

This is called congenial, and an overly congenial person is an "affinity."
Extract from : « The Annals of Ann » by Kate Trimble Sharber

For it was but little better than five feet in stature and not overly broad.
Extract from : « Old Judge Priest » by Irvin S. Cobb

But the boys were not overly anxious to get back to the oasis at once.
Extract from : « Captured by the Arabs » by James H. Foster

Synonyms for overly

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