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overachievers

overachievers is the plural 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

Questions about overachievers

What is overachievers the plural of?
Overachievers is the plural of overachiever.

Words near overachievers in the dictionary

  1. overachieve
  2. overachieved
  3. overachievement
  4. overachievements
  5. overachiever
  6. overachievers
  7. overachieves
  8. overachieving
  9. overacid
  10. overacidic
  11. overacidification

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