surfeit

1. 1.

   the state of being more than full

   Synonymsexcessoverabundance

   Broaderfullness
2. 2.

   the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall

   Synonymsglutoversupply

   Broaderoverabundance
3. 3.

   eating until excessively full

   Synonymsrepletion

   Broadereating

1. 1.

   supply or feed to surfeit

   Synonymscloy

   Broadersupply
2. 2.

   indulge (one's appetite) to satiety

   Broaderindulge

Other forms of surfeit

plural

surfeits·

past tense

surfeited·

present participle

surfeiting·

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 surfeit

What does surfeit mean?

surfeit means "the state of being more than full". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surfeit?

surfeit has 2 syllables: sur-feit. The stress falls on "sur". In IPA it is /ˈsɝfət/.

What is another word for surfeit?

Close synonyms include excess, overabundance, glut, oversupply, repletion. 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 surfeit a common word?

surfeit 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.