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overreacter

overreacter is the alternative form of overreactor.

Meaning of overreactor

Noun

overreactor (plural overreactors)

  1. One who overreacts.
    • The overreactor develops poor focus while the underreactor has trouble developing empathy. Either pattern will affect how others interact with that person, and thus will affect the neurochemical profile.2005, Katherine M. Ramsland, Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers: Why They Kill

Forms of overreacter

pluraloverreacters

Questions about overreacter

What is overreacter the alternative form of?
Overreacter is the alternative form of overreactor.

Words near overreacter in the dictionary

  1. overreachingly
  2. overreachingness
  3. overreachings
  4. overreact
  5. overreacted
  6. overreacter
  7. overreacters
  8. overreacting
  9. overreaction
  10. overreactions
  11. overreactive

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