Overplay

Quick meaning: Overplay is a verb meaning (ambitransitive, acting) To overdo or overact one's effect or role.

Meaning

(ambitransitive, acting) To overdo or overact one's effect or role.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, music) To play (a song or record) too frequently, often to the point of causing weariness and annoyance.
2. (ambitransitive, figurative) To overestimate one's strength in a game or event, which ultimately may end in a defeat.
3. (transitive, golf) To accidentally hit (one's golf ball) beyond "the green".

Example Sentences

Jack won the last match of blackjack; Theo overplayed.

The first few shots went wonderfully, but Robin overplayed the last and lost.

When Chris overacted his part again, the director warned that anyone overplaying would be barred from the next production.

A lot of times I don't want to overplay songs that I really like, because I know that then I'll get sick of them and I don't want to get sick of them.

Word Forms

• overplays
• overplaying
• overplayed

Synonyms for overplay

Depending on context, synonyms include ham, overact.

Antonyms for overplay

Common opposites include underplay, underact.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overact, ham, overdo, overdramatize, overdirect, overply.

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