Lexic.us

Definition of Overactive

1. Adjective. More active than normal. "A hyperactive child"

Definition of Overactive

1. [adj]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Overactive

overaccentuate overaccentuated overaccentuates overachieve overachieved overachievement overachiever overachievers overachieves overachieving

overact overacted overacting overaction overactions overactive (current term) overactivities overactivity overacts overacute

overadjustment overadjustments overadvertise overadvertised overadvertises overadvertising overage overaged overages overaggressive

Literary usage of Overactive

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1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"He was of the overactive type, also, and was mischievous and boisterous. ... He, again, was one of the overactive type, the symptoms being attributable to a ..."

2. Naval Officers: Their Heredity and Development by Charles Benedict Davenport (1919)
"We may reckon the temperaments as overactive, hyperkinetic; underactive, ... The choleric person is overactive, starts on new lines of work before ..."

3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"He was of the overactive type, also, and was mischievous and boisterous. ... He, again, was one of the overactive type, the symptoms being attributable to a ..."

4. Naval Officers: Their Heredity and Development by Charles Benedict Davenport (1919)
"We may reckon the temperaments as overactive, hyperkinetic; underactive, ... The choleric person is overactive, starts on new lines of work before ..."

5. A Treatise on Orthopaedic Surgery by Royal Whitman (1919)
"These operations have been conducted for the purpose of weakening the power of the spastic muscle and thereby lessening the disparity between the overactive ..."

6. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"Frederick Müller in 1893 recognized that there was increased protein destruction in overactive thyroid glands and consequently an increased metabolic rate. ..."

7. A Treatise on Orthopaedic Surgery by Royal Whitman (1919)
"These operations have been conducted for the purpose of weakening the power of the spastic muscle and thereby lessening the disparity between the overactive ..."

8. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"Frederick Müller in 1893 recognized that there was increased protein destruction in overactive thyroid glands and consequently an increased metabolic rate. ..."

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