Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Excessively eager; too ardent or impatient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Too eager; too impatient.
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- adjective Excessively
eager ,anxious , orexcited .
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- adjective excessively eager
Etymologies
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Examples
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LAQUER: Oh, he always knew and associated himself with what is called overeager assistants -- he could have written one line, he could have pressed one button and the thing would have stopped, but he never did.
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He couldn't stop looking at her and was starting to feel stupid about it, like he was some kind of overeager schoolboy in the presence of his first girlfriend.
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Not so long ago, these very same people would have seen such talk as the kind of overeager self-congratulation that blinds a nation to its own mistakes and vulnerabilities.
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How many producers will actually remix a remix, and how often do people pay that kind of overeager editing any mind?
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He had seemed a bit overeager for conversation, hungry for it, and perhaps that was the shadow of what was coming.
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Doula Jen, as Sarah had nicknamed her, arrived at our house to find one overeager student with freshly sharpened pencils and a crisp new notepad.
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We could do with a few slip-ups – basketballers proving too tall to walk through the doors, the "wrong type of mud" at the BMX, an overeager health-and-safety steward snuffing out the Olympic flame.
Sebastian Coe must be running on Jedi mind control| Emma John
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But the majority of the Chinese artists who are squabbled over by blue chip dealers and by museums eager to feature them in prestigious one-person shows have one thing in common: The political and economic history between Mao's infamous cultural revolution and present-day China's overeager capitalism provides a recurrent touchstone in their art's imagery.
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Looks like reports of a Windows update causing a Black Screen of Death were just an antivirus company trying to get some free press, and overeager reporters willing to play along.
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• Video of an overeager fanboy charging the pearly gates and getting denied!
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