hypertrophiedadj.
/hʌɪˈpəːtrəfɪd/, U.S. /haɪˈpərtrəfid/ a. Affected with hypertrophy; enlarged by excessive growth.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > growth of abnormal tissue
hypertrophied1835
hypertrophous1836
heteroplastic1854
hyperplastic1873
hyperplasic1886
polysarcous1890
hypercellular1955
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 240/2 This cellular substance seemed to be hypertrophied.
1857 M. J. Berkeley Introd. Cryptogamic Bot. §603. 532 The marginal sori being seated on the hypertrophied teeth.
1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 92 The kidney..may become hypertrophied, owing to the loss or incapacity of its fellow.
b. figurative. Overgrown, excessive.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree
overmeteeOE
unmeeteOE
unimeteOE
unmethelyOE
over-mickleOE
hoflesc1175
overmucha1300
unskilwisea1340
unskilfulc1370
luxuriousc1374
overseemingc1384
superfluec1384
unreasonablea1387
outrageousc1390
over-greatc1390
overlargec1390
overgrowna1398
unmeasurablea1398
unmoderatea1398
unordinatea1398
immoderate1398
rankc1400
overabundantc1410
excessivea1420
superabundant?a1425
unmeasureda1425
superfluousc1475
nimious?c1500
surfeitc1500
overliberala1535
torc1540
exceeding1548
distemperate1557
over-ranka1568
overswelling1582
accessive1583
overaboundinga1600
overteeming1603
excessful1633
overproportionated1647
superproportioned1652
over-proportioned1662
overproportionate1672
unduea1684
unequal1704
unmerciful1707
hypermetric1854
hypertrophied1879
over the top1980
1879 Romanes in 19th Cent. Sept. 414 Such hypertrophied conservatism as this ought not to be allowed to obstruct progress.
1881 G. J. Romanes in Nature 27 Jan. 285/2 It is hard to be patient with such hypertrophied absurdity.
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adj.1835