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Undue vs Overdue - What's the difference?

undue | overdue |

As adjectives the difference between undue and overdue

is that undue is excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient while overdue is late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.

undue

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.
  • To individuals who despise killings in any form, death penalty is undue punishment.
  • That which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified.
  • (of a payment etc) Not owing or payable.
  • Derived terms

    * undueful * undue influence * undueness * unduly

    overdue

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue . When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
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