Word Meanings - OVERINFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To inform, fill, or animate, excessively. Johnson.
Related words: (words related to OVERINFORM)
- INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - INFORMOUS
Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne. - INFORMANT
1. One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. Glanvill. 2. One who imparts information or instruction. - JOHNSONIANISM
A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson. - INFORMATION
A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal - INFORMER
One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution - JOHNSONESE
The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett. - INFORMIDABLE
Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. "Foe not informidable." Milton. - ANIMATER
One who animates. De Quincey. - INFORMED
Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless. Spenser. Informed stars. See under Unformed. - INFORMALLY
In an informal manner. - ANIMATED
Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous. "Animated sounds." Pope. "Animated bust." Gray. "Animated descriptions." Lewis. - JOHNSON GRASS
A tall perennial grass , valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet. - INFORMATIVE
Having power to inform, animate, or vivify. Dr. H. More. - INFORMALITY
1. The state of being informal; want of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings. 2. An informal, unconventional, or unofficial act or proceeding; something which is not in proper or prescribed form or does - JOHNSONIAN
Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated. - INFORMATORY
Full of, or conveying, information; instructive. London Spectator. - ANIMATEDLY
With animation. - INFORM
Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed. Cotton. - INFORMAL
1. Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without ceremony; as, an informal writting, proceeding, or visit. 2. Deranged in mind; out of - WELL-INFORMED
Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent. - MISINFORMER
One who gives or incorrect information. - INANIMATE
To animate. Donne. - EXANIMATE
1. Lifeless; dead. "Carcasses exanimate." Spenser. 2. Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened. "Pale . . . wretch, exanimate by love." Thomson. - INTERANIMATE
To animate or inspire mutually. Donne. - REANIMATE
To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits. Glanvill.