Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overattentive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-at-ten-tive
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Excessively attentive

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English attentive English overattentive From over- + attentive.

Inflected Forms

more overattentive (comparative) most overattentive (superlative)

Derived Forms

overattentively overattentiveness

Questions

What does overattentive mean?: Excessively attentive
Where does overattentive come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English attentive English overattentive From over- + attentive.

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