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over-achiever

over-achiever is the alternative spelling of overachiever.

Meaning of overachiever

Noun

overachiever (plural overachievers)

  1. One who overachieves; one who has too much success.
    • It is the portrait of one of the great teacher-parents, a zealot of European high culture self-confidently at work before the time that turned such a parent into a selfish tyrant and such a child into an "overachiever," to use the philistine label which conveys the contemporary disdain for...1980, Susan Sontag, “Mind as Passion”, in Under the Sign of Saturn, New York: Vintage, published 1981, pages 192–3
    Antonyms:
    underachiever

Forms of over-achiever

pluralover-achievers

Questions about over-achiever

What is over-achiever the alternative spelling of?
Over-achiever is the alternative spelling of overachiever.

Words near over-achiever in the dictionary

  1. over-accommodate
  2. over-accommodated
  3. over-accommodates
  4. over-accommodating
  5. over-accommodation
  6. over-achiever
  7. over-achievers
  8. over-age
  9. over-and-under
  10. over-and-unders
  11. over-Annie-over

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