over-the-top

1. 1.

   far more than usual or expected

   “an extraordinary desire for approval”

   “it was an over-the-top experience”

   Synonymsextraordinarysinful

   Similarimmoderate

Questions about over-the-top

What does over-the-top mean?

over-the-top means "far more than usual or expected".

How many syllables are in over-the-top?

over-the-top has 4 syllables: o-ver--the--top. The stress falls on "ver-".

What is another word for over-the-top?

Close synonyms include extraordinary, sinful. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is over-the-top a common word?

over-the-top is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.