"overengineered" meaning in All languages combined

See overengineered on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more overengineered [comparative], most overengineered [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} overengineered (comparative more overengineered, superlative most overengineered)
  1. Made more complicated than necessary, often intentionally; as, especially:
    Sense id: en-overengineered-en-adj-m-1knd1V Categories (other): English links with manual fragments
  2. Made more complicated than necessary, often intentionally; as, especially:
    Designed for greater strength or other greater capability than is reasonably warranted by the principal purpose of the object, in anticipation of heavier duty or longer duty cycles than the standard use cases would predict.
    Sense id: en-overengineered-en-adj-Wuqv249w Categories (other): English links with manual fragments
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: built like a brick shithouse, overbuilt, Rube Goldberg, Heath Robinson

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} overengineered
  1. simple past and past participle of overengineer Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: overengineer
    Sense id: en-overengineered-en-verb-Bf7PXSaq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 33 46

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