overvaliant

1. 1.

   having or showing undue valor or boldness

   “a foolish overvaliant act”

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Questions about overvaliant

What does overvaliant mean?

overvaliant means "having or showing undue valor or boldness".

How many syllables are in overvaliant?

overvaliant has 5 syllables and divides as o-ver-va-li-ant 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 overvaliant a common word?

overvaliant 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.