overprecious

overprecious

English

Etymology

over- +‎ precious

Adjective

overprecious (comparative more overprecious, superlative most overprecious)

1. Excessively precious; contrived, artificial.
   • 1969, Jōchi Daigaku, Monumenta Nipponica

     The ethos is all too easily misunderstood as an overprecious, bloodless, mindless civilization.

   • 1989, Bill Bryson, The lost continent: travels in small-town America

     But it was just a gift shop selling overprecious reproductions at outrageous prices — brass candle snuffers at $28, reproduction apothecary jars at $35...