Definition of Overrigid

1. a. Too rigid; too severe.

Definition of Overrigid

1. Adjective. Too rigid or severe. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overrigid

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overrigid

overrestore
overrestored
overrestoring
overrich
overridability
overridable
overridden
override
overrideable
overrides
overriding
overrife
overrigged
overrighteous
overrigid (current term)
overrigorous
overripe
overripe cataract
overripen
overripened
overripeness
overripening
overripens
overroast
overroasted
overroasting
overroasts
overrode
overromanticize

Literary usage of Overrigid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"... as there are others •when they seem to hold every man who offers his services in any of the professions to an overrigid accountability, and to make him ..."

2. Readings in Ancient History: Illustrative Extracts from the Sources by William Stearns Davis, Willis Mason West (1913)
"Yet certainly, in my judgment, it marks an overrigid temper, for a man to take the work out of his servants as out of brute beasts, turning them off and ..."

3. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1856)
"This is overrigid. It is enough that ill name is truly descriptive and applicable. It is not allege) that there is any doubt of the identity of the parties. ..."

4. Postcommunism: Four Perspectives by Michael Mandelbaum (1996)
"More interestingly, Grigori Yavlinsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Duma, argues that if monetary policy is overrigid, heavy unemployment will develop ..."

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