Definition of Overenthusiastic

1. Adjective. Unduly enthusiastic.

Similar to: Enthusiastic

Definition of Overenthusiastic

1. Adjective. excessively enthusiastic ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overenthusiastic

overenergetic
overenergized
overenforcement
overengineer
overengineered
overengineering
overengineers
overenjoy
overenjoyed
overenjoying
overenjoys
overenrolled
overentertained
overenthusiasm
overenthusiasms
overenthusiastic (current term)
overenthusiastically
overenunciate
overenunciated
overenunciates
overenunciating
overequip
overequipped
overequipping
overeruption
overest
overestimate
overestimated
overestimates
overestimating

Literary usage of Overenthusiastic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1905)
"I have seen some results so remarkable that I have hesitated to report them, lest I might be thought to be overenthusiastic. When I made my first report on ..."

2. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"... in undernutrition may be corrected, while the overenthusiastic use of starvation may result in a state that cannot be rectified ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The spiritualization of the law into the one precept of love to God taught and exemplified by Jesus encouraged some overenthusiastic devotees to believe ..."

4. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1917)
"Another function is to make it difficult for overenthusiastic theorists to promulgate wild hypotheses. The results of work with calorimeters and other types ..."

5. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1908)
"and while he is making a success of it I am afraid if we went into it we might become overenthusiastic to the neglect of our orchard, as Mr. Seeling has ..."

6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"If we are overenthusiastic as to the virtues of one anaesthetic agent, we can ofttimes find some cause other than the anaesthetic for the accident, ..."

7. The Table Talk of John Selden by John Selden, Richard Milward (1892)
"A decade later, after visiting the country which Shaw was already overenthusiastic about, she was to praise Soviet Russia for having—so she alleged—made ..."

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