over-anxious
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Fanny was confused, but it was the confusion of discontent; while Miss Crawford wondered she did not smile, and thought her over-anxious, or thought her odd, or thought her anything rather than insensible of pleasure in Henry’s attentions."
- "What over-anxious care for details!"
- "In the case of the whippingboys, however, the closeness of the relationship was often given a somewhat negative interpretation by the teachers: The parents were over-anxious, ‘cottoned’ the boy, were overprotective."
- "It is so easy for over-anxious singers to squeak, to mispitch a note, or to forget the words, that the teacher must display absolute faith in his or her pupils’ ability to produce something of value."
Inflected Forms
more over-anxious (comparative)
most over-anxious (superlative)