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overcategorise

overcategorise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of overcategorize.

Meaning of overcategorize

Verb

overcategorize (third-person singular simple present overcategorizes, present participle overcategorizing, simple past and past participle overcategorized)

  1. (transitive) To categorize more than is suitable or necessary.

Forms of overcategorise

third-person singular presentovercategorises
present participleovercategorising
past participleovercategorised
pastovercategorised

Origin of overcategorise

From over- + categorise.

Questions about overcategorise

What is overcategorise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Overcategorise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of overcategorize.

Words near overcategorise in the dictionary

  1. overcatch
  2. overcatches
  3. overcatching
  4. overcategories
  5. overcategorisation
  6. overcategorise
  7. overcategorised
  8. overcategorises
  9. overcategorising
  10. overcategorization
  11. overcategorizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcategorise (page history and authors); overcategorize (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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