overgarment

Other forms of overgarment

plural

overgarments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overgarment

What does overgarment mean?

overgarment means "a garment worn over other garments".

How many syllables are in overgarment?

overgarment has 4 syllables: o-ver-gar-ment. The stress falls on "ver".

What is another word for overgarment?

Close synonyms include outer garment. 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.

What is the opposite of overgarment?

The recorded antonyms are undergarment.

Is overgarment a common word?

overgarment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.