oversublime

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

over- +‎ sublime

Adjective[edit]

oversublime (comparative more oversublime, superlative most oversublime)

  1. Excessively sublime.
    • 1998, James Russell Kincaid, Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting, page 78:
      In the heady early eighties, things got a little oversublime, Reader's Digest suggesting that thousands of missing children are murdered each year (it's closer to one hundred) []