overseason

Add excessive seasoning

To overseason is to add too much salt, spice, or other flavoring to food, overwhelming the dish's natural taste: The soup was overseasoned with garlic.

The term extends figuratively to anything with excessive embellishment: The script was overseasoned with pop culture references.

salty

oversalted

Contains excessive sodium

cured · pickled · marinated · preserved · saltiness · saline · inedible · ruined · preserved

pungent

overpowering

Too intense to withstand

bitter · cloying · heavy-handed · unbalanced · unpalatable · off-putting · dominating

spicy

too hot

habanero · scorching · fiery · numbing · sriracha · unbearable

Opposites
seasoning quantity

overseasonunderseason

Add insufficient seasoning

underseasoned · undersalt

Family

overseasoned, overseasoning

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