Overly vs Loverly - What's the difference?
overly | loverly |
To an excessive degree.
*
(obsolete) Careless; negligent; inattentive; superficial; not thorough.
(obsolete) Excessive; too much.
As adjectives the difference between overly and loverly
is that overly is careless; negligent; inattentive; superficial; not thorough while loverly is lovely.As an adverb overly
is to an excessive degree.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)