oversize

[ adjective oh-ver-sahyz; noun oh-ver-sahyz ]
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adjectiveAlso o·ver·sized .
  1. of excessive size; unusually large: an oversize cigar.

  2. of a size larger than is necessary or required.

noun
  1. something that is oversize; an oversize article or object.

  2. a size larger than the proper or usual size.

Origin of oversize

1
First recorded in 1605–15; over- + size1

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How to use oversize in a sentence

  • Assembled there they look like a lot of malformed giants, with oversized heads sunk curiously in their shoulders.

  • In the center of the neat kitchen, spitting angrily at the wet, stood a ruffled and oversized black tom-cat.

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  • There were four ungainly, monstrous birds like oversized Cornish Game gamecocks pecking at him.

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  • The unconscious Geneva Jervis, lying crumpled up in the oversized fur coat, was the immediate problem.

  • The starer, without once taking his eyes off Horace, rose, advanced to the little window and thrust through it an oversized card.

British Dictionary definitions for oversize

oversize

adjective(ˌəʊvəˈsaɪz)
  1. Also: oversized larger than the usual size

noun(ˈəʊvəˌsaɪz)
  1. a size larger than the usual or proper size

  2. something that is oversize

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