overstuffed

[oh-ver-stuhft]

adjective

1. stuffed or filled to excess.

2. Furniture.,  having the entire frame covered by stuffing and upholstery, so that only decorative woodwork or the like is exposed.

   an overstuffed sofa.

3. filled with tedious or extraneous material; overlong.

   an overstuffed biography.

4. obese; corpulent.

   an overstuffed man who was a compulsive eater.

Word History and Origins

Origin of overstuffed¹

First recorded in 1920–25; overstuff + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Both the meal and the conversation had been a great deal to absorb, and she was feeling quite overstuffed, in head, heart, and tummy.

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The Times’ Joshua Rothkopf called it a “wildly ambitious, overstuffed city epic.”

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It’s clearly a passion project, and like many passion projects, it can go overboard at times, grow overstuffed, not to say oversolemn — though solemnity, to be sure, is appropriate to the history.

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And just like those cases, such an overstuffed film would not work without the right star to reduce the cinematic clutter.

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There was also frustration in the country over what was seen as struggles to deliver on big promises - an agenda that was "overfilled, overstuffed", said Mr Wells - and his handling of files like immigration.

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Related Words

• corpulent 
• obese 
• pudgy