Overly vs Extremely - What's the difference?
overly | extremely |
To an excessive degree.
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(obsolete) Careless; negligent; inattentive; superficial; not thorough.
(obsolete) Excessive; too much.
As adverbs the difference between overly and extremely
is that overly is to an excessive degree while extremely is to an extreme degree.As an adjective overly
is careless; negligent; inattentive; superficial; not thorough.overly
English
Adverb
(-)- Parents can be overly protective of their children.
- This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Bishop Hall)
- (Coleridge)