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Webster 1913 Edition
Overwise
O′ver-wise′
,Adj.
Too wise; affectedly wise.
– Oˊver-wise′ly
, adv.
Oˊver-wise′ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Overwise
OVERWI'SE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
overwise
overwise
English
Adjective
overwise (comparative more overwise, superlative most overwise)
- Excessively wise; too clever for one's own good.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
- “Perkins? Bless you, Perkins wouldn’t go a-nigh the place. No!” observed the young man, with considerable feeling; “he ain’t overwise, ain’t Perkins, but he ain’t such a fool as that.”
- 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
Derived terms
- overwisely
- overwiseness