surfeitive

adj

Etymology

From surfeit + -ive.

  1. derived from -īvus
  2. derived from -if
  3. inherited from -yf
  4. compounded as surfeitive — “surfeit + -ive

Definitions

  1. excessive

    • They lay thick, viscid underfoot, sweet and oversweet in the nostrils with a sweetness surfeitive and moribund, and at night now the ragged shadow of full-fledged leaves pulsed upon the barred window in shabby rise and fall.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for surfeitive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA