Overread
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əʊvəˈɹiːd/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Overread is a verb meaning To read too much or excessively.
Meaning
To read too much or excessively.
More Meanings
- Having read too much.
- (ambitransitive) To interpret something to a greater degree, or in a more positive way, than appropriate; read in too much depth; overinterpret; overanalyze.
- (obsolete) To read over, or peruse.
Example Sentences
Did we just overread and overstate our place in the world?
To overread Plath's houses is to transform these biographical documents into spatial ones.
Over the dore thus written she did spye, / Bee bold: she oft and oft it over-red, / Yet could not find what sence it figured […].
At the same time, we overread. That is, we find in narratives qualities, motives, moods, ideas, judgments, even events for which there is no direct evidence in the discourse.
Word Forms
- overreads
- overreading
Antonyms for overread
Common opposites include underread.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overgo, overlook, overpeer, underread, overheal, overcark.
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