overschooled
overschooled is the simple past and past participle of overschool.
Meaning of overschool
Verb
overschool (third-person singular simple present overschools, present participle overschooling, simple past and past participle overschooled)
- To school to excess; to give too much training.
- It is impossible to overeducate, but it is very possible to overschool.1898, William Jay Youmans, Appletons' Popular Science Monthly - Volume 53, page 490
Adjective
overschooled (comparative more overschooled, superlative most overschooled)
- Schooled too much.
- Next to these come merchants in general, brokers, etc.; then less frequently clergymen; still less often lawyers; and more rarely doctors; while distressing cases are apt to occur among the overschooled young of both sexes.1897, Silas Weir Mitchell, Wear and Tear: Or, Hints for the Overworked, page 63
- In that book as in this one, Horwitz assumes the pose of a baby-boomer Everyman, overschooled but undereducated.2008 May 4, Andrew Ferguson, “Don’t Know Much About History”, in New York Times
Forms of overschooled
| comparative | more overschooled |
|---|---|
| superlative | most overschooled |
Origin of overschooled
From over- + schooled.
Questions about overschooled
- What does overschooled mean?
- Overschooled means schooled too much.
- What is overschooled the simple past and past participle of?
- Overschooled is the simple past and past participle of overschool.
- What part of speech is overschooled?
- Overschooled is an adjective.
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