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overcareful

[ oh-ver-kair-fuhl ]

adjective

  1. excessively or unduly careful.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • v·fܱ· adverb
  • v·fܱ·Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of overcareful1

First recorded in 1585–95; over- + careful
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Prose often receives the label “poetic” when it is musical or flowery, or when it seems overcareful.

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At the same time he wondered if, being overcareful, he would never finish his statements at all.

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Becoming overcareful of their diet, they reduce it below the normal limit for healthy activity.

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Even then, this is an overcareful precaution rather than a necessity.

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She was not really angry with this overcareful gentleman; she would only have been grieved had he proved the man to serve her well.

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