overthink
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.70 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To think too highly (of); overestimate
Example Sentences
- "Don't overthink the problem. It's not that difficult."
- "Mr. Trump “thinks about it as just like whatever entertains him, but as he’s doing that, he’s bringing people together,’” Mr. Ceraso said in a phone interview on Sunday before the event. Democrats, he added, should “stop trying to overthink it.”"
- "So to think of self as not to overthink — to think of yourself with sober, moral judgment."
- "But when I dred that wou'd not work, I overthought me of a Wile How I might at my leisure lurk, My graceless Guardain to beguile."
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- Proto-Indo-European *teng-der. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną Proto-West Germanic *þankijan Old English þenċan Middle English thinken English think English overthink From over- + think.