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overindustrious en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + industrious.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of over-industrious.
    • Instead, he saw himself as running away from an overindustrious past and getting free of any steady employment—getting free to ramble in a way that no black person could safely do. 2011, Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, Oxford University Press, page 128:
    • It may be that there is no time when one could not be doing something for a child or the well-being of the Acme Bolt Company or the local Democratic party; although a wise person will not be overindustrious. 1995, Joel J. Kupperman, Character, page 10:
    • There are lizards and snakes, frogs and crabs, tarantulas and spiders, hornets and beetles, and the greatest nuisance of all is the swarming and overindustrious ant. Overindustrious creatures are always a nuisance. 1898, Amos Kidder Fiske, The Story of the Philippines: A Popular Account of the Islands from Their Discovery by Magellan to the Capture by Dewey, page 25: