overworked
overworked adjective: subjected to too much work. Also the simple past and past participle of overwork.
Adjective
overworked (comparative more overworked, superlative most overworked)
- Subjected to too much work.
- Overworked and underpaid? Then quit your job and become a pro darts player.
- Miss Suu Kyi’s overworked advisers[…]argue that people have to be realistic about what can be achieved in a short time and on a slender budget.2013 October 19, “Preparing for success”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8858
- Having been overused such that it has lost its meaning; trite; banal.
- overworked, unaffecting cliches
- [Tim Garton Ash] is what you might call—overworked phrase—a public intellectual.2009 July 23, Michael White, “Don't let Anthony Blunt fool us again”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Also used as
overworked is also the simple past and past participle of overwork.
overworked meaning in Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam
overworked in Marathi
- अतिअश्रम
overworked in Telugu
- అతిగా పనిచేశారు, అతిగా పని చేశారు
overworked in Malayalam
- അമിതമായി ജോലി ചെയ്തവർ, അമിതമായി ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്നവർ
Examples of overworked in a sentence
- The truth is that we are too overworked, under capitalism, to be deeply, collectively horny, too overworked even to realise that this is the case.2020, Sophie Lewis, “Collective Turn-off”, in Mal:
- If it was an overworked phrase before Frozen, it’s now hard to use the expression without a shudder.2015 January 18, Mariella Frostrup, “I don’t know how to move on from my first boyfriend”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Synonyms of overworked
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Forms of overworked
| comparative | more overworked |
|---|---|
| superlative | most overworked |
Origin of overworked
From over- + worked.
From overwork + -ed.
Words formed from overworked
Words that rhyme with overworked
Questions about overworked
- What does overworked mean?
- Overworked means subjected to too much work.
- What is overworked in Marathi?
- Overworked in Marathi is अतिअश्रम. See Overworked meaning in Marathi.
- How do you use overworked in a sentence?
- The truth is that we are too overworked, under capitalism, to be deeply, collectively horny, too overworked even to realise that this is the case.
- What part of speech is overworked?
- Overworked is an adjective.
Words near overworked in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: overworked (page history and authors); overworked (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); overworked (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); overworked (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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