Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Too familiar, as.
- adjective Exceedingly common or ordinary.
- adjective Unduly forward or brash; offensively presumptuous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Taking undue liberties; assuming an unwarranted tone of familiarity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective common or repeated to the point of being unnoticed or annoying
- adjective so acquainted with something, that one doesn't notice it, or is annoyed by it
- adjective overly friendly or intimate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective taking undue liberties
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Examples
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Connie Willis: D.A. Connie Willis sends up overfamiliar "space academy" stories with this one about the only girl on Earth who has no desire to enroll.
Clunk, Clunk, Clunk 2009
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Connie Willis: D.A. Connie Willis sends up overfamiliar "space academy" stories with this one about the only girl on Earth who has no desire to enroll.
Iraq 2010
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Connie Willis: D.A. Connie Willis sends up overfamiliar "space academy" stories with this one about the only girl on Earth who has no desire to enroll.
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Connie Willis: D.A. Connie Willis sends up overfamiliar "space academy" stories with this one about the only girl on Earth who has no desire to enroll.
Hugo Bound 2009
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The stand-up material in this video would be overfamiliar to anyone who has an interest in him, but I just loved the line about tickling everybody in the audience.
What am I supposed to do: go out and tickle them all, individually? | clusterflock 2009
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Connie Willis: D.A. Connie Willis sends up overfamiliar "space academy" stories with this one about the only girl on Earth who has no desire to enroll.
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In "Ark," he is unwilling to expend the slightest effort to make his overfamiliar premise plausible.
A Master Back in the Saddle Lee Sandlin 2011
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The last version was FKNAWSM, despite the rambling, sometimes overfamiliar prose and the impression it was a 2nd draft essay before the linking paragraphs were done.
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It seemed like an overfamiliar way of revisiting loss, ageing and regret.
Rewind TV: The Apprentice; The Song of Lunch; The Genius of British Art Phil Hogan 2010
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Connie Willis: D.A. Connie Willis sends up overfamiliar "space academy" stories with this one about the only girl on Earth who has no desire to enroll.
Immigration 2010
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