overachiever
overachiever noun: one who overachieves; one who has too much success.
Noun
overachiever (plural overachievers)
- 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
- But none of those is true for Mr. de Rothschild, who belongs instead to a multihyphened class of overachievers: eco-adventurer and green-evangelist.2009 April 19, Jesse Mckinley, “After the Silver Spoon, a Green Life”, in The New York Times
- Antonyms:
- underachiever
Antonyms of overachiever
Forms of overachiever
| plural | overachievers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | over-achiever |
Origin of overachiever
From overachieve + -er or over- + achiever.
Questions about overachiever
- What does overachiever mean?
- Overachiever means one who overachieves; one who has too much success.
- What part of speech is overachiever?
- Overachiever is a noun.
- What is the plural of overachiever?
- The plural of overachiever is overachievers.
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