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Overfull vs Overmuch - What's the difference?

overfull | overmuch |

As an adjective overfull

is excessively filled; filled to overflowing.

As a determiner overmuch is

(chiefly|british) very much; too much.

As an adverb overmuch is

(chiefly|british) too much; overly much.

overfull

English

Adjective

(-)
  • excessively filled; filled to overflowing

    • Related terms

    * overfill

    Derived terms

    * overfully * overfullness

    overmuch

    English

    Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • (chiefly, British) very much; too much
  • * 1990 , , Britain's defence dilemma: An inside view (rethinking British defence policy in the post-imperial era) , page 78,
    • This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another.

    Adverb

  • (chiefly, British) too much; overly much
    • Some readers do not care overmuch for poetry.