Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overfull

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.52 in modern English

Syllables: over-full
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

excessively filled; full to overflowing

noun

A full house that beats someone else's full house.

Example Sentences

"[…] let's say the flop comes 9-9-8, with the open pair on top. One player has J-T-9-8 for the overfull—9s full of 8s for the nut full house—while another player has 8-8-7-6 for 8s full of 9s and the "underfull". The player with the underfull is both getting smashed and drawing dead."

Etymology

From Middle English overful, overfulle, from Old English oferfull (“overfull”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *uberfullaz; equivalent to over- + full. Cognate with German übervoll (“overfull”), Swedish överfull (“overfull”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over
Root: overful, oferfull, *uberfullaz

Inflected Forms

overful (alternative) overfulls (plural)

Derived Forms

overfully overfullness

Frequently Paired Words

overfill

Synonyms

glutted

Antonyms

underfull

Questions

What does overfull mean?: excessively filled; full to overflowing
Where does overfull come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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