Word Meanings - OVERINFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To inform, fill, or animate, excessively. Johnson.

Related words: (words related to OVERINFORM)

• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• INFORMOUS
  Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne.
• INFORMANT
  1. One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. Glanvill. 2. One who imparts information or instruction.
• JOHNSONIANISM
  A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
• INFORMATION
  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• INFORMER
  One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution
• JOHNSONESE
  The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
• INFORMIDABLE
  Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. "Foe not informidable." Milton.
• ANIMATER
  One who animates. De Quincey.
• INFORMED
  Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless. Spenser. Informed stars. See under Unformed.
• INFORMALLY
  In an informal manner.
• ANIMATED
  Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous. "Animated sounds." Pope. "Animated bust." Gray. "Animated descriptions." Lewis.
• JOHNSON GRASS
  A tall perennial grass , valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.
• INFORMALITY
  1. The state of being informal; want of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings. 2. An informal, unconventional, or unofficial act or proceeding; something which is not in proper or prescribed form or does
• INFORMATIVE
  Having power to inform, animate, or vivify. Dr. H. More.
• JOHNSONIAN
  Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.
• INFORMATORY
  Full of, or conveying, information; instructive. London Spectator.
• ANIMATEDLY
  With animation.
• INFORM
  Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed. Cotton.
• INFORMAL
  1. Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without ceremony; as, an informal writting, proceeding, or visit. 2. Deranged in mind; out of
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
• MISINFORMER
  One who gives or incorrect information.
• INANIMATE
  To animate. Donne.
• EXANIMATE
  1. Lifeless; dead. "Carcasses exanimate." Spenser. 2. Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened. "Pale . . . wretch, exanimate by love." Thomson.
• INTERANIMATE
  To animate or inspire mutually. Donne.
• REANIMATE
  To animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits. Glanvill.