overuniform

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From over- +‎ uniform.

Adjective[edit]

overuniform (comparative more overuniform, superlative most overuniform)

  1. Too uniform; not sufficiently varied.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.9:
      It is some pleasure to command, were it but a mole-hill, and a delight to be obaied. But it is a pleasure over-uniforme and languishing.
    • 2008, Keith A Nitta, The Politics of Structural Education Reform:
      Throughout the 1990s, the Japan Business Federation and Japanese Association of Business Executives advocated deregulation and decentralization to what they saw as an over-uniform and centralized education system.
    • 2013, Philippe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture, page 143:
      For all those weary of an overuniform world, that realization is surely cause for a measure of rejoicing.