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Editorial note

I should probably make that a blog post, as it would get overly long here.

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to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits; "too big"

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adverb

to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits; "too big"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for overly.

adverb

to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits; "too big"

Example sentences

I should probably make that a blog post, as it would get overly long here.

This post highlights the issue with overly zealous mods on SO who marked the question as off topic.

The event staff is overly demanding and inconsiderate of speaker time.

Looks like the new DNS manager is overly complicated and impossibly to use easily.

I think this blog post is overly caught up on the word “card” – HyperCard “cards” weren’t particularly like the cards inside android or twitter or facebook.

As it stands, prison can't be included in any reasoning about consequences, except in an overly simplistic binary matter that has no effect at curbing any behavior once it is on the table.

Maybe I'm stupidly jaded, and it's one of the things that has steadily pushed me out of the Apple ecosystem, but this trend for overly emotional marketing of stuff, especially in the hipster end of the market, grates enormously.

The $32 million fundraising goal might seem overly ambitious, but it's actually more realistic than it appears at first glance, because at $600+ per unit the campaign needs only around 50,000 buyers worldwide to be successful -- or a bit over 2% of Ubuntu's enthusiastic user base, which was estimated to be greater than 20 million in 2011.[1]PS.