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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERCONTROLLED

overcontrolled  [ˌəʊvəkənˈtrəʊld] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERCONTROLLED

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

WHAT DOES OVERCONTROLLED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overcontrolled in the English dictionary

The definition of overcontrolled in the dictionary is excessively controlled.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERCONTROLLED


bold
bəʊld
cold
kəʊld
computer-controlled
kəmˈpjuːtəkənˌtrəʊld
controlled
kənˈtrəʊld
decontrolled
ˌdiːkənˈtrəʊld
disenrolled
ˌdɪsɪnˈrəʊld
entrold
ɪnˈtrəʊld
gold
ɡəʊld
hold
həʊld
household
ˈhaʊsˌhəʊld
noncontrolled
ˌnɒnkənˈtrəʊld
old
əʊld
overenrolled
ˌəʊvərɪnˈrəʊld
remote-controlled
rɪˌməʊtkənˈtrəʊld
rent-controlled
ˈrɛntkənˌtrəʊld
rolled
rəʊld
scrolled
skrəʊld
self-controlled
ˌsɛlfkənˈtrəʊld
state-controlled
ˌsteɪtkənˈtrəʊld
uncontrolled
ˌʌnkənˈtrəʊld

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERCONTROLLED

overcomplex
overcompliance
overcomplicate
overcompress
overconcern
overconfidence
overconfident
overconfidently
overconscious
overconsume
overconsumption
overcontrol
overcontrolling
overcook
overcool
overcorrect
overcorrection
overcount
overcover
overcoy

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERCONTROLLED

called
carolled
cold-rolled
filled
frivolled
gambolled
installed
jolled
patrolled
pistolled
polled
radio-controlled
Red Polled
skilled
skolled
symbolled
unpolled
vitriolled
well-controlled
woolled

Synonyms and antonyms of overcontrolled in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overcontrolled» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERCONTROLLED

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

Translator English - Chinese

overcontrolled
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sobrecontrolado
570 millions of speakers

English

overcontrolled
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overcontrolled
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

overcontrolled
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

overcontrolled
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

overcontrolled
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

overcontrolled
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

surcontrôlent
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak terkawal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

übersteuert
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

overcontrolled
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

overcontrolled
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overcontrolled
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overcontrolled
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overcontrolled
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Overcontrolled
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

overcontrolled
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

overcontrolled
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overcontrolled
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

overcontrolled
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

overcontrolled
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

overcontrolled
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overcontrolled
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

överkontrollerats
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overcontrolled
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overcontrolled

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERCONTROLLED»

The term «overcontrolled» is used very little and occupies the 178.924 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERCONTROLLED» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERCONTROLLED»

Discover the use of overcontrolled in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overcontrolled and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Stress And Emotion: Anxiety, Anger, & Curiosity
Special scales were developed to assess anger and anger-related constructs, including hostility, resentment, bitterness, belligerence, manifest hostility, overt hostility, and overcontrolled hostility. Although it is beyond the scope of this chapter ...
Charles D. Spielberger, Irwin G. Sarason, 2013
2
Child Psychopathology
Similarly, Lambert and Weisz (1989) found that overcontrolled problems were reported significantly more often for Jamaican than for American youngsters — a finding consistent with Afro-British Jamaican cultural attitudes and practices that ...
Eric J. Mash, Russell A. Barkley, 2003
3
Human Aggression
ent kinds of offenses complete a questionnaire designed to measure tendencies toward the overcontrol of aggression (the Overcontrolled Hostility Scale; Megargee, Cook, & Mendelsohn, 1967). As predicted, persons in jail for committing ...
Robert A. Baron, Deborah R. Richardson, 2004
4
Understanding Violence
An. “Overcontrolled”. Offender? Paul Bernardo was a 30-year-old bookkeeper who “might be Joe Ordinary, from Anytown, Canada” (Nickerson, 1995). A handsome man who had been characterized as domestic and quiet, Bernardo had no ...
Elizabeth Kande Englander, 2003
5
Developmental Science and the Holistic Approach
All three types reported an increasing number of peers in their network but both maladjusted types reported fewer peers overall; in addition, the Overcontrolled type showed a stronger increase in the number of peers than the Adjusted type.
Lars R. Bergman, Robert B. Cairns, Lars-Goran Nilsson, 2000
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A Therapist's Guide to Growing Free: A Manual for Survivors ...
®overcontrolled. batterers, ̄ includes abuserswho are notintouch withtheir emotions.Asthey become frustrated,their anger builds andthey may explode aftera long periodof unexpressed rage.During intervention, the ...
Wendy Susan Deaton, Michael Hertica, 2014
7
Oxford Handbook of Personality Assessment
Although many aggressive and violent people clearly do lack adequate inhibitions or controls, we discovered that some extremely violent offenders are, paradoxically, overcontrolled individuals whose rigid and excessive inhibitions against ...
James N. Butcher, 2009
8
The Clinical Application of MMPI Special Scales
516) Overcontrolled Hostility Scale (OH) Several reasonably careful investigations arrived at the interesting conclusion that institutionalized criminals convicted of violent crimes tend to score lower on measures of aggression and higher on ...
Eugene E. Levitt, Edward Earl Gotts, 1995
9
Psychoanalysis, Violence and Rage-Type Murder: Murdering Minds
Using psychoanalytic theory and a number of case studies, this book isolates key psychological factors that appear to help explain why such acts of extreme violence occur.
Duncan Cartwright, 2014
10
Normal and Abnormal Fear and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents
50 4O — I Internalizing 3O ' El Externalizing El Mixed internalizing/ 20 — . . externalizing 0 _ Resilient Overcontrolled Undercontrolled Figure 4.2: Percentages of resilient, Overcontrolled, and undercontrolled youths displaying internalizing, ...
Peter Muris, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERCONTROLLED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overcontrolled is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Risky play, frisky children: When does a careful free rein become …
She bemoans the damage we are doing to children by keeping them indoors, supervised and overcontrolled, for fear of danger lurking outside. «Irish Times, Jul 15»
2
Ex Machina director Alex Garland on Artificial Intelligence and Morality
And within it, a very kind of overcontrolled and human setting, one massive and expansive, and the other claustrophobic and contained. «Artvoice, May 15»
3
Book review: Tony Fitzpatrick, “Climate Change and Poverty: A new …
Similarly, ecosocial poverty is time poverty: time overcontrolled by others, or time of poor quality, characterised by enforced inactivity or by lousy ... «Basic Income News, Feb 15»
4
Citation X+ Pilot Report
Rotating the X+ on takeoff, I pulled back too hard on the yoke and overcontrolled a bit until I got the hang of the lighter control feel. Quicker ... «Aviation International News, Nov 14»
5
How law enforcement agencies screen new employees
Overcontrolled hostility: Individuals who are very hostile but deal with it through denial and suppression can be dangerous. That hostility will ... «9NEWS.com, Jul 14»
6
The tethered generation
Therapists agree that it is relatively easy to spot the overcontrolled adult-child when they come for therapy. They are indecisive and easily ... «Irish Independent, Mar 14»
7
IHT Rendezvous | Defenders of Public Spaces Take Inspiration …
“The privatization of the public realm, through the growth of 'private-public' space, produces overcontrolled, sterile places which lack ... «New York Times, Jun 13»
8
The Americans Watch: The Commitments
... at super-tight control of the "spoilers" aren't part and parcel of why the show sometimes feels overcontrolled, airless, hermetically sealed, and, ... «TIME, Apr 13»
9
The power of an 'Iron Lady'
Trade unions rules, intended to protect workers in the Dickensian mines and mills, had created a petrified economy, overcontrolled and ... «Chicago Tribune, Apr 13»
10
Hurry Up and Wait
... of course, to assert that Division I college basketball is “in trouble,” that it has become so slow and staid and overcontrolled it might ultimately ... «Grantland, Feb 13»

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