Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Excessively enthusiastic: overzealous movie fans; an overzealous manager.
Wiktionary
- adj. Too zealous; too enthusiastic, determined; too fervent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Too zealous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea
Examples
“Part of it, too, is frankly to reign in overzealous creativity.”
“That you think that’s hateful and overzealous is just, I don’t know, kinda hateful and overzealous.”
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“KURTZ: Although much has been reported and written about Wen Ho Lee during these past 19 months, "The New York Times" has come under heavy fire for its initial round of coverage, which many have called overzealous and inaccurate.”
“The Times" framed the story as a huge spy scandal beginning back in March of 1999, but has come under fire for its early stories, which some have called overzealous and inaccurate.”
“They just had too much makeup," he continues, using a common term for overzealous cellar work.”
“Adding to the those woes was yet another bad break - literally - when what Greene describes as an "overzealous massage therapist" snapped his right femur a month before he was due to check out of rehab in Ponoka and move to Nanaimo.”
“Councilmember Colleen Clay scoffed at the idea of overzealous vigilantes, saying her constituents were more "nuanced" than that, and would not heartlessly tear down lost-pet notices.”
“overzealous" -- but said he never enriched himself while trying to help minority college students at the City University of New York.”
“Let us move beyond the "overzealous" and sometimes cruel "anti-terrorism" of the Bush administration, and display the same spirit of humanity, goodness and decency that got Ibrahim Parlak in this mess to begin with.”
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Test Prep or Just for fun
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over-
above; upper; superior; eminent
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My Self-Descriptors: A Mirror of Text
Read this list, and read it well. When you finish, you'll know me better than my mother. That is, unless she reads this list too.
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More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
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