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overinvolved

overinvolved adjective: excessively involved.

Adjective

overinvolved (comparative more overinvolved, superlative most overinvolved)

  1. Excessively involved.
    • A young couple’s marriage is threatened when the husband, a social worker, becomes overinvolved with a disturbed client in this well-written novel, Gaige’s second.2009 February 22, Elsa Dixler, “Paperback Row”, in New York Times

Forms of overinvolved

comparativemore overinvolved
superlativemost overinvolved

Origin of overinvolved

From over- + involved.

Questions about overinvolved

What does overinvolved mean?
Overinvolved means excessively involved.
What part of speech is overinvolved?
Overinvolved is an adjective.

Words near overinvolved in the dictionary

  1. overinvestments
  2. overinvestor
  3. overinvestors
  4. overinvests
  5. overinvoice
  6. overinvolved
  7. overinvolvement
  8. overinvolvements
  9. overiodisation
  10. overiodization
  11. overiodized

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