Definition of Overthought

1. Verb. (past of overthink) ¹

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Definition of Overthought

1. overthink [v] - See also: overthink

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overthought

overtest
overtested
overtesting
overtests
overtheorize
overtheorized
overtheorizes
overtheorizing
overthick
overthin
overthink
overthinker
overthinkers
overthinking
overthinks
overthought (current term)
overthrew
overthrow
overthrowal
overthrowals
overthrower
overthrowers
overthroweth
overthrowing
overthrown
overthrows
overthrust
overthrust fault
overthrusts
overthwart

Literary usage of Overthought

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

1. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"two strains of thought running together and like counterpointed; the overthought that which everybody, editors, see [...] and which might for instance be ..."

2. Educational Problems by Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"If not, as George Herbert calls the Sabbath, "the fruit of this, the next world's bud," it ought to bring in the influence of the overthought and encourage ..."

3. Potter's American Monthly (1880)
"... coupled with the child's overthought. Boys were in the habit of using (he phrase suck-in as synonymous with a cheat, a deception, When I was a child of ..."

4. Memorial and Biographical Sketches by James Freeman Clarke (1878)
"overthought has paralyzed the will-power in Hamlet. He is in a condition of moral catalepsy ; seeing and knowing everything, but incapable of motion, ..."

5. Memorial and Biographical Sketches by James Freeman Clarke (1878)
"overthought has paralyzed the will-power in Hamlet. He is in a condition of moral catalepsy; seeing and knowing everything, but incapable of motion, ..."

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