overschooled
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of overschool
adj
Schooled too much.
Example Sentences
- "Next to these come merchants in general, brokers, etc.; then less frequently clergymen; still less often lawyers; and more rarely doctors; while distressing cases are apt to occur among the overschooled young of both sexes."
- "In that book as in this one, Horwitz assumes the pose of a baby-boomer Everyman, overschooled but undereducated."
Etymology
From over- + schooled.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over
Inflected Forms
more overschooled (comparative)
most overschooled (superlative)