overexplanatory

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

over- +‎ explanatory

Adjective[edit]

overexplanatory (comparative more overexplanatory, superlative most overexplanatory)

  1. Excessively explanatory.
    • 2009 September 22, Mike Hale, “Amateur Detectives Meet Unidentified Victims”, in New York Times[1]:
      Its look and pace closely resemble those of “Without a Trace”; it puts its dead victims on screen to observe the action, a device borrowed from “Cold Case”; and it has the stilted, overexplanatory dialogue that somehow characterizes every series in the Bruckheimer canon, regardless of show runner or writers.