Usually means: Excessively, to an extreme degree.
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  1. overly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Overly, overly: Wordnik
  7. overly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overly: Wiktionary
  9. overly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Overly, overly: Dictionary.com
  13. overly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Overly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. overly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. overly: Rhymezone
  17. Overly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. overly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. overly: Free Dictionary
  20. overly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. overly: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. overly: Legal dictionary

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  1. overly: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  (sometimes proscribed) To an excessive degree.
adverb:  (usually negative) To a high degree; very.
adverb:  (obsolete) Superficially.
adverb:  (obsolete) Carelessly, without due attention.
adverb:  (obsolete) With a sense of superiority, haughtily.
adjective:  (obsolete) Superficial; not thorough; careless, negligent, inattentive.
adjective:  (obsolete) Having a sense of superiority, haughty.
adjective:  (obsolete) Excessive; too great.

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