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  • adjective Designed to be excessively complicated or to an excessive degree of capability and durability.

Etymologies

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over- +‎ designed

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Examples

  • What many people think when I say the word "design," is they think of this kind of overdesigned -- in this case, it's overdesigned on purpose -- but decoration, interior decoration.

    Paola Antonelli treats design as art 2007

  • What many people think when I say the word "design," is they think of this kind of overdesigned -- in this case, it's overdesigned on purpose -- but decoration, interior decoration.

    Paola Antonelli treats design as art 2007

  • What many people think when I say the word "design," is they think of this kind of overdesigned -- in this case, it's overdesigned on purpose -- but decoration, interior decoration.

    Paola Antonelli treats design as art 2007

  • "overdesigned" and was an inappropriate development for a site next to the boundary of the

    The Guardian World News Dave Hill 2010

  • Posted March 31, 2010 at 1: 27 pm | Permalink totally overdesigned. max

    Awesome Sculptural Home in Somosaguas : Spain 2010

  • The brain is vastly overdesigned for what it accomplished in primitive society; thus, [Wallace reasoned,] natural selection could not have built it.

    Design for Living Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Unlike the overdesigned Broadway revival, Arden's production takes place on a plain, naturalistic set in a black-box theater, and therein lies much of the secret of why it works so well.

    O'Neill Staged on an Intimate Scale Terry Teachout 2011

  • The brain is vastly overdesigned for what it accomplished in primitive society; thus, [Wallace reasoned,] natural selection could not have built it.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Thirdly, IP was not designed to deliver video, so the network has to be overdesigned to do it.

    TWC to Customers: You Don’t Want Tiers, You Don’t Get Super-fast Broadband 2009

  • SHANGHAI—Pundits once mocked Shanghai's Pudong district, a purpose-built version of Manhattan, as overdesigned and underoccupied, evidence in steel and glass of a property bubble of historic proportions.

    Shanghai's Pudong, Once Soulless, Rises Up James T. Areddy 2011

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