surfeitive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

surfeit +‎ -ive

Adjective[edit]

surfeitive (comparative more surfeitive, superlative most surfeitive)

  1. excessive
    • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 86:
      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.