overlight

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. excessive light countable,uncountable
    — An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle, insomuch as perpetual looking against the ſun would cause blindness.
动词 v.
  1. To illuminate too brightly. transitive
    — Dozens of times over the next two years, Officer Yan’s work brought him through the sliding glass doors into the overlit clamor of Kings County’s emergency room, one of the busiest in the city.
  2. To illuminate from above. transitive
    — Thus the stereotype is overlighted by the archetype, just as in conventional Egyptian statuary the historical pharoah is often shown standing under the god, the wings of Horus.
形容词 adj.
  1. Too light or frivolous; giddy. dated
    — Also that they be not overlight and wanton of behaviour.

词形变化

overlights present,singular,third-person overlighting participle,present overlit participle,past overlit past overlighted participle,past overlighted past overlights plural more overlight comparative most overlight superlative

词源

词源 1
From over- + light.
词源 2
From over- + light.
词源 3
From Middle English over-lyght, equivalent to over- + light.
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