overgrownadjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈɡrəʊn/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɡroʊn/overgrown adjective (COVERED)
covered with plants that are growing thickly and in an uncontrolled way:
The field is overgrown with weeds.
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Fertile or infertile land
- barren
- bread basket
- cultivable
- denude
- exuberant
- fallow
- fertile
- fertility
- granary
- hospitable
- hostile
- infertile
- luscious
- lush
- luxuriant
- marginal land
- rank
- rich
- sterile
- verdant
overgrown adjective (TOO LARGE)
disapproving 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.
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Physically and mentally mature & immature
- adult
- ageing
- aging
- an old/a wise head on young shoulders idiom
- babyish
- grown
- grown up
- head
- immature
- infantile
- juvenile
- mature
- maturely
- maturity
- petulant
- precocious
- precociously
- puerile
- retarded
- young
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