overuniform

overuniform

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ uniform.

Adjective

overuniform (comparative more overuniform, superlative most overuniform)

1. Too uniform; not sufficiently varied.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.9:

     It is some pleasure to command, were it but a mole-hill, and a delight to be obaied. But it is a pleasure over-uniforme and languishing.

   • 2008, Keith A Nitta, The Politics of Structural Education Reform:

     Throughout the 1990s, the Japan Business Federation and Japanese Association of Business Executives advocated deregulation and decentralization to what they saw as an over-uniform and centralized education system.

   • 2013, Philippe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture, p. 143:

     For all those weary of an overuniform world, that realization is surely cause for a measure of rejoicing.