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OVERCAREFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overcareful mean?
• OVERCAREFUL (adjective)
The adjective OVERCAREFUL has 1 sense:
1. excessively or unduly careful
Familiarity information: OVERCAREFUL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessively or unduly careful
Synonyms:
overcareful; too-careful
Similar:
careful (exercising caution or showing care or attention)
Context examples
My dear, dear anxious friend,—said she, in mental soliloquy, while walking downstairs from her own room, always overcareful for every body's comfort but your own; I see you now in all your little fidgets, going again and again into his room, to be sure that all is right.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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