overcompensatingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

overcompensating +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

overcompensatingly (comparative more overcompensatingly, superlative most overcompensatingly)

  1. In a way that overcompensates.
    • 2015 July 16, Ben Ratliff, “Review: Foo Fighters Bring a Little of Everything to the Stage, Including a Broken Leg”, in New York Times[1]:
      And for the first few songs, he was encouragingly, overcompensatingly manic, his good leg pumping, talking up the greatness in store.