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over-educated

over-educated is the alternative form of overeducated.

over-educated is the simple past and past participle of over-educate.

Meaning of overeducated

Adjective

overeducated (comparative more overeducated, superlative most overeducated)

  1. Having received too much education
    • The Bright Young People were the most glamorous, influential, self-absorbed, quasi-bohemian and overeducated creatures in existence.2009 January 23, Dwight Garner, “The Mahvelous and the Damned”, in New York Times

Forms of over-educated

comparativemore over-educated
superlativemost over-educated

Questions about over-educated

What is over-educated the alternative form of?
Over-educated is the alternative form of overeducated.

Words near over-educated in the dictionary

  1. over-diversify
  2. over-diversifying
  3. over-dressed
  4. over-eat
  5. over-educate
  6. over-educated
  7. over-educates
  8. over-educating
  9. over-education
  10. over-egg
  11. over-egg the pudding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: over-educated (page history and authors); overeducated (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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