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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERCAREFUL

overcareful  [ˌəʊvəˈkeəfʊl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERCAREFUL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overcareful is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OVERCAREFUL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overcareful in the English dictionary

The definition of overcareful in the dictionary is excessively careful.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERCAREFUL


careful
ˈkɛəfʊl
characterful
ˈkærɪktəfʊl
cheerful
ˈtʃɪəfʊl
colorful
ˈkʌləfʊl
colourful
ˈkʌləfʊl
direful
ˈdaɪəfʊl
earful
ˈɪəfʊl
fearful
ˈfɪəfʊl
flavorful
ˈfleɪvəfʊl
flavourful
ˈfleɪvəfʊl
humorful
ˈhjuːməfʊl
ireful
ˈaɪəfʊl
masterful
ˈmɑːstəfʊl
pleasureful
ˈplɛʒəfʊl
powerful
ˈpaʊəfʊl
prayerful
ˈprɛəfʊl
saucerful
ˈsɔːsəfʊl
tearful
ˈtɪəfʊl
ultracareful
ˌʌltrəˈkeəfʊl
wonderful
ˈwʌndəfʊl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERCAREFUL

overcall
overcame
overcanopy
overcapacity
overcapitalisation
overcapitalise
overcapitalization
overcapitalize
overcapitalized
overcarry
overcast
overcast seam
overcatch
overcaught
overcautious
overcautiously
overcautiousness
overcentralise
overcentralize
overcharge

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERCAREFUL

adventureful
dareful
disgraceful
dureful
fateful
forceful
graceful
grateful
hateful
hopeful
peaceful
purposeful
resourceful
shameful
tasteful
uncareful
ungrateful
useful
vengeful
wasteful

Synonyms and antonyms of overcareful in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overcareful» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERCAREFUL

Find out the translation of overcareful to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of overcareful from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overcareful» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

overcareful
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

overcareful
570 millions of speakers

English

overcareful
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overcareful
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

overcareful
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

overcareful
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Overcareful
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

overcareful
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

overcareful
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Overcareful
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

übervorsichtig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

overcareful
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

overcareful
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overcareful
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overcareful
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overcareful
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अतिआवश्यक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

overcareful
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

overcareful
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overcareful
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

overcareful
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

overcareful
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

overcareful
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overcareful
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

overcareful
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overcareful
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overcareful

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERCAREFUL»

The term «overcareful» is used very little and occupies the 185.736 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERCAREFUL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «overcareful» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «overcareful» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overcareful

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERCAREFUL»

Discover the use of overcareful in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overcareful and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature
MAW SHOULD NOT BE OVERCAREFUL, ETC. also all who desire to follow Him, He plainly ex horteth to the bearing of the cross, and saith, "It any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." So that ...
Jeannette Leonard Gilder, 1910
2
Reading: its nature and development
... 161 Rate: of articulation, 143; of pronunciation, 143; of reading in various grades, 167 Rational method, 7 Reactions and interpretation, 178 Reader, careless, 163; rapid, careless, 160; slow, 161; slow, overcareful, 159 Readers of various ...
Charles Hubbard Judd, William Scott Gray, Clarence Truman Gray, 1918
3
Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine
Tlwn the ant but oped a crevice, As the overcareful will, And she kept the shivering cricket On the hoarfrost-whitened sill. Questions of the cricket's home- life, Of his Summer toil, fell fast ; And then on the humble pleader I.o, the gate was shut at ...
Charles Force Deems, 1888
4
Supplementary Educational Monographs
... Rational method, 7 Reactions and interpretation, 1 78 Reader, careless, 163; rapid, careless. 160; slow, 161; slow, overcareful, 159 Readers of various types, 159 Reading: in American schools, 186; history of, in American schools, 1; period  ...
‎1918
5
The Physician's Wife and the Things that Pertain to Her Life
And now I would like to add that I am fully aware all doctors are not reprehensible in this matter of being overcareful of their wives. Then, between the too-careful husband and the one who cares nothing about his wife at all, except to be sure ...
Ellen M. Firebaugh, 1910
6
House Journal of the ... State Legislature of Wyoming, ...
We can not be overcareful in maintaining our water laws as they are, and improving them whenever it may be possible to do so; thus perfecting, in the early days of our State's history, the title to water as attached to land. Wyoming is destined to ...
Wyoming. Legislature. House of Representatives, 1903
7
Until I Find You: A Novel
According to Emma, Jack was as irritatingly slow and overcareful a driver as ever. But Emma wasn't slow or overcareful. "It might have been safer to buy a house in Beverly Hills," Jack used to tell her. He meant that Emma might have done less ...
John Irving, 2006
8
House Journal ...
We can not be overcareful in maintaining our water laws as thev are, and improving them whenever it may be possible to do so ; thus perfecting, in the early days of our State's history, the title to water as attached to land. Wyoming is destined ...
Kansas. Legislature. House of Representatives, Wyoming. Legislature. House of Representatives, 1903
9
Silent Reading: A Handbook for Teachers
On the other hand, some pupils who read slowly and laboriously are overcareful. They seem not to know when they have finished with a paragraph, but continue to re-read it lest some puzzling statement may be overlooked. Some do not know  ...
Charles E. Germane, Edith Gayton Germane, 1922
10
Silencing Eve
“Caleb's being overcareful. We should have stayed together.” “If he'd been overcareful, you'd have taken him down and done what you wanted,” Trevor said quietly as he drove into the Radisson parking lot. “It speaks volumes that you let him ...
Iris Johansen, 2013

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERCAREFUL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overcareful is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Clinton the Musical
Butler sings well enough, but the discerning ear hears no Chicago, no Yale, no overcareful enunciations, no anything Rodhamesque. «American Thinker, May 15»
2
The women's majlis: Learning to let go can be hard for a mother
At times, they feel that I'm overprotective, overcareful and just “over-everything”. Having been married since the age of 19, I sometimes think ... «The National, Nov 14»
3
A lack of succession planning is bad for business
We should also beware of overcareful succession plans that are apparently set in stone. Things change, and plans have to change with them. «Financial Times, Nov 13»
4
Beckett plays, Edinburgh Festival
Andrew Bennett's Rooney dominates an occasionally overcareful cast. -------------------------------------------. Eh Joe was Beckett's first television ... «Financial Times, Sep 13»
5
The Loneliest Planet
The upshot is a film that feels visceral yet overcareful, nuanced yet gimmicky. Perhaps the story needed another twist or two - or perhaps if ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 13»
6
Review: HTC One X LTE (AT&T)
... of the case, the camera slowly climbs out of the back of the phone until I am intentionally overcareful when I set the phone down on the back. «Geek, May 12»
7
Plenty of Kitsap in Bainbridge author's book Poser'
... Dederer, in a recent interview, called "the white-hot center of this overdetermined, overcareful, over-educated, attachment parenting culture.". «Kitsap Sun, Mar 11»
8
Baffled by Burn After Reading
Osborne's Olympian contempt for his superiors, his overcareful pronunciation of French words ("mem-wah"), the modest shock value of a ... «TIME, Aug 08»

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