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Something that has grown too large
- used to describe something that has grown too large: Cottonwood has become an overgrown town with inadequate facilities.
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The meaning of OVERGROWN is grown abnormally or excessively large. How to use overgrown in a sentence.
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used to describe something that has grown too large: Cottonwood has become an overgrown town with inadequate facilities. disapproving, disapproving. used to describe an adult who behaves like a child: They're acting like overgrown kids. UK Jim is just an overgrown schoolboy.
used to describe something that has grown too large: Cottonwood has become an overgrown town with inadequate facilities. disapproving, disapproving. used to describe an adult who behaves like a child: They're acting like overgrown kids. UK Jim is just an overgrown schoolboy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
1. adjective. If a garden or other place is overgrown, it is covered with a lot of untidy plants because it has not been looked after. We hurried on until we reached a courtyard overgrown with weeds. [ + with] As the equipment was unpacked, I led Lee around the overgrown garden. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
(often disapproving) that has grown too large. an overgrown village. They act like a pair of overgrown children (= they are adults but they behave like children). See overgrown in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: overgrown. Definition of overgrown adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
v. o·ver·grew (-gro͞o′), o·ver·grown (-grōn′), o·ver·grow·ing, o·ver·grows. v.tr. 1. To grow over with herbage or foliage. 2. To grow beyond or too large for. v.intr. 1. To grow beyond normal or usual size.
Grown excessively or beyond normal size. Webster's New World. Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence spoiling the picturesqueness of a garden. Wiktionary. (In the form "An overgrown X") Something which has grown bigger but has not changed its character.
