| OVERFEAR | • overfear v. (Transitive) To fear excessively; to be too afraid of. • OVERFEAR v. to fear too much. |
| OVERFEARS | • overfears v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overfear. • OVERFEAR v. to fear too much. |
| OVERFEARED | • overfeared v. Simple past tense and past participle of overfear. • OVERFEAR v. to fear too much. |
| OVERCAREFUL | • overcareful adj. Excessively careful. • OVERCAREFUL adj. too careful. |
| OVERFAVORED | • overfavored v. Simple past tense and past participle of overfavor. • OVERFAVOR v. to favor excessively. |
| OVERFEARING | • overfearing v. Present participle of overfear. • OVERFEAR v. to fear too much. |
| PERFORATIVE | • perforative adj. Having power to perforate or pierce. • PERFORATIVE adj. causing perforation, also PERFORATORY. |
| REFORMATIVE | • reformative adj. That serves to reform or correct. • REFORMATIVE adj. intended or tending to reform. |
| OVERFAVOURED | • overfavoured v. Simple past tense and past participle of overfavour. • OVERFAVOUR v. to favour excessively. |
| PERFORMATIVE | • performative adj. (Philosophy, linguistics) Being enacted as it is said. • performative adj. Being done as a performance in order to create an impression. • performative n. A performative utterance. |
| PREFORMATIVE | • preformative n. Chiefly in Semitic languages: a formative letter, syllable, etc., at the beginning of a word. • preformative adj. Of or pertaining to preformation. • preformative adj. Of a thing: forming or affecting something that comes later. |
| OVERCAREFULLY | • overcarefully adv. In an overcareful manner. |
| PERFORMATIVES | • performatives n. Plural of performative. • PERFORMATIVE n. such a statement, as opposed to constative. |
| PREFORMATIVES | • preformatives n. Plural of preformative. • PREFORMATIVE n. a prefixture in Semitic languages. |
| PROLIFERATIVE | • proliferative adj. (Not comparable, cytology) of or pertaining to proliferation, especially of cells. • proliferative adj. Proliferating; tending to proliferate. • proliferative n. Such a cell. |
| PERFORMATIVELY | • performatively adv. In a performative manner. • PERFORMATIVE adv. of a statement or verb that itself constitutes the action described, e.g. I confess my ignorance, also PERFORMATORY. |
| OVERFORWARDNESS | • overforwardness n. The quality of being overforward. • OVERFORWARD n. excessively forward. |
| PHOTOREFRACTIVE | • photorefractive adj. (Physics) of or relating to a change in refractive index in the presence of light. • PHOTOREFRACTIVE adj. designating or relating to surgical procedures in which a laser is used to reshape the cornea and correct refractive errors such as myopia or astigmatism; esp. in photorefractive keratectomy. |