overworked
/ˌoʊvɚwˈɝkt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of overwork
Example Sentences
- "Overworked and underpaid? Then quit your job and become a pro darts player."
- "Miss Suu Kyi’s overworked advisers[…]argue that people have to be realistic about what can be achieved in a short time and on a slender budget."
- "The truth is that we are too overworked, under capitalism, to be deeply, collectively horny, too overworked even to realise that this is the case."
- "overworked, unaffecting cliches"
- "[Tim Garton Ash] is what you might call—overworked phrase—a public intellectual."
- "Dare I say “Let it go” without images of an animated princess flashing before your eyes? If it was an overworked phrase before Frozen, it’s now hard to use the expression without a shudder."
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 worked English overworked From over- + worked.
Inflected Forms
more overworked (comparative)
most overworked (superlative)