surfeitive
English
Etymology
surfeit + -ive
Adjective
surfeitive (comparative more surfeitive, superlative most surfeitive)
- excessive
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, 1985, p.86:
- They lay thick, viscid underfoot, sweet and oversweet in the nostrils with a sweetness surfeitive and moribund, and at night now the ragged shadow of full-fledged leaves pulsed upon the barred window in shabby rise and fall.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, 1985, p.86: