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overcaution

overcaution noun: excessive caution.

Noun

overcaution (uncountable)

  1. Excessive caution.
    Synonyms:
    hypercaution

Verb

overcaution (third-person singular simple present overcautions, present participle overcautioning, simple past and past participle overcautioned)

  1. (transitive) To caution excessively.
    • Near-synonym: overwarn
    • Perhaps more importantly, his father was absent from home most of the time and his mother added to his timidity by overcautioning him against getting hurt.1966, Joy Paul Guilford, Ann Anastasi, Fields of Psychology, page 219
    Synonyms:
    overwarn

Synonyms of overcaution

Forms of overcaution

third-person singular presentovercautions
present participleovercautioning
past participleovercautioned
pastovercautioned

Origin of overcaution

From over- + caution.

Questions about overcaution

What does overcaution mean?
Overcaution means excessive caution.
What part of speech is overcaution?
Overcaution can be a noun or a verb.

Words near overcaution in the dictionary

  1. overcategorized
  2. overcategorizes
  3. overcategorizing
  4. overcategory
  5. overcaught
  6. overcaution
  7. overcautioned
  8. overcautioning
  9. overcautions
  10. overcautious
  11. overcautiously

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