overserious

1. 1.

   excessively serious

   Similarserious

Questions about overserious

What does overserious mean?

overserious means "excessively serious".

How many syllables are in overserious?

overserious has 5 syllables and divides as o-ver-se-ri-ous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is overserious a common word?

overserious 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.