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Overly vs Choplogical - What's the difference?

overly | choplogical |

As adjectives the difference between overly and choplogical

is that overly is careless; negligent; inattentive; superficial; not thorough while choplogical is characterized by equivocation or by overly complex or specious argumentation; improperly reasoned.

As an adverb overly

is to an excessive degree.

overly

English

Adverb

(-)
  • To an excessive degree.
    • Parents can be overly protective of their children.
  • *
    • This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Careless; negligent; inattentive; superficial; not thorough.
    • (Bishop Hall)
  • (obsolete) Excessive; too much.
    • (Coleridge)

    Anagrams

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    choplogical

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (rare) Characterized by equivocation or by overly complex or specious argumentation; improperly reasoned.
  • * 1659 , , The Queen and Concubine , act 4. sc. 5,
    • How! you choplogical rascal, peasants!
  • * 1961 , Ethel Seaton, Sir Richard Ross, c. 1410-1482: Lancastrian Poet , R. Hart-Davis, page 496,
    • This is not Roos's usual style, but surely a skit of Maud's manner of choplogical circular argumentation, which irresistibly recalls the verses read as 'evidence' before the King of Hearts.

    Synonyms

    * chop logic (adj.) * illogical