ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Overintense

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Overintense is an adjective meaning Excessively intense.

Meaning

Excessively intense.

Example Sentences

Such a love was not of course literally possible, and Pierre's overintense relations with his mother had only had the effect of frustrating him still further, and destroying his capacity for happy and normal relations with the opposite sex.
This made successful identification extremely hard for him. Well into his late teens his mother was the pivotal influence in his life. With the help of his fiancée his interests changed and he tried to free himself from the overintense family life.
It is as much a crack as the one which is made in the glasa when an overintense charge breaks through the side of a Leyden jar. The only difference in the two cases is that the crack remains in the glass, but is immediately effaced in the fluid and movable substance of the air.
He had delighted in Adrian, adored him, admired him; and somehow he had managed always to preserve a semblance of a not overintense interest and affection; he remembered having to force himself to leave the house, when all he wanted to do was to stay and delight in his son, and he remembered the gaiety and excitement of coming home to him at night.

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Related dictionary entries include hyperintensive, overintimate, intense, hyperintense, overpassionate, overstrenuous.

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