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Overnice

Definition: Overnice

Overnice

Adjective

1. Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "overnice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)


Synonyms: Overnice

Synonyms: dainty (adj), nice (adj), prissy (adj), squeamish (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Overnice

English words defined with "overnice": EuphuizeFinedrawn. (references)

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Modern Translation: Overnice

Language Translations for "overnice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏متأنق (dandy, dressed up, dressy, elegant, smart, stylish, swell). (various references)

   

German

  

überfein. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υπερλεπτολόγοσ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

overniceay

   

Romanian

  

peste mãsurã de capricios, cusurgiu (fastidious, fault finder, finical, nice). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

alltför petig. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

quá khó tính; quá tỉ mỉ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Overnice

Misspellings

"Overnice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: osvoenie, overni. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Overnice

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-r-v"

-1 letter: cervine, corvine, revoice.

-2 letters: coiner, corvee, encore, envier, evince, novice, orcein, recoin, renvoi, veiner, venire, voicer.

-3 letters: coven, cover, covin, crone, envoi, irone, nerve, never, nicer, niece, nieve, orcin, ovine, recon, reive, riven, roven, vireo, voice.

-4 letters: cere, cero, cine, cion, cire, coin, coir, cone, coni, core, corn, cove, erne, even, ever, icon, inro.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-r-v"
 

+1 letter: conceiver.

 

+2 letters: conceivers, providence, reconceive, reconvince, recovering, uncoercive, ventricose.

 

+3 letters: bedcovering, convertible, conveyorise, conveyorize, counterview, divorcement, eigenvector, insectivore, neuroactive, noncoercive, noncreative, nonreactive, overdecking, preconceive, provenience, providences, reconceived, reconceives, reconvening, reconveying, reconvicted, reconvinced, reconvinces.

 

+4 letters: bedcoverings, coerciveness, consecrative, conservative, conservatize, conventicler, convertibles, conveyorised, conveyorises, conveyorized, conveyorizes, counterviews, divorcements, eigenvectors, evisceration, improvidence, inobservance, insectivores, interconvert, misconceiver, nondirective, overcleaning, overclearing, overexciting, overissuance, overreaching, overreacting, overreaction, overreliance, precognitive, preconceived, preconceives, proveniences, reconceiving, reconversion, reconverting, servicewoman, servicewomen, uncoercively, undiscovered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Overnice


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 76 65 72 6E 69 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    ...-    .    .-.    -.    ..    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01101110 01101001 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#118 &#101 &#114 &#110 &#105 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0076 0065 0072 006E 0069 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4988718480756971

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Overnice"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتان‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arabic, arabisk, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, ‏المانية, "ερμανός, neamţ, tysk, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, ‏الإغريقي, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greacã, grek, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcirerumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, român, rumänsk

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättning‏اللغة السويدية, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svensk, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchvietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnames, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, englezesc, engelsk
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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