overboard

1. 1.

   to extremes

   “he went overboard to please his in-laws”
2. 2.

   from on board a vessel into the water

   “they dropped their garbage overboard”

Questions about overboard

What does overboard mean?

overboard means "to extremes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overboard?

overboard has 3 syllables: o-ver-board. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˌbɔɹd/.

Is overboard a common word?

overboard is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with overboard?

40 words rhyme with overboard. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.