overcultivated

English

Etymology

over- +‎ cultivated

Adjective

overcultivated (comparative more overcultivated, superlative most overcultivated)

1. Excessively cultivated.
   • 2007 September 16, Sophie Gee, “The Red Badge of Scandal”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The overcultivated, emotionally constrained New York of Edith Wharton and Henry James — who appears in the novel as a force for debilitating self-control — resounds in the morality tale of Theodore’s demise.