overachiever
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who overachieves; one who has too much success.
Example Sentences
- "It is the portrait of one of the great teacher-parents, a zealot of European high culture self-confidently at work before the time that turned such a parent into a selfish tyrant and such a child into an "overachiever," to use the philistine label which conveys the contemporary disdain for precocity and intellectual ardor."
- "But none of those is true for Mr. de Rothschild, who belongs instead to a multihyphened class of overachievers: eco-adventurer and green-evangelist."
- "The hyperfit athlete and the frail elderly woman are alike in that they are made in God's image. The lost rebellious teenager, the college overachiever, and the self-conscious middle schooler are all image bearers."
Etymology
From overachieve + -er or over- + achiever.