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Definition of Overactive
1. Adjective. More active than normal. "A hyperactive child"
Definition of Overactive
1. Adjective. Excessively active. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overactive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overactive
Literary usage of Overactive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"He was of the overactive type, also, and was mischievous and boisterous. ...
He, again, was one of the overactive type, the symptoms being attributable to a ..."
2. Naval Officers: Their Heredity and Development by Charles Benedict Davenport (1919)
"We may reckon the temperaments as overactive, hyperkinetic; underactive, ...
The choleric person is overactive, starts on new lines of work before ..."
3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"He was of the overactive type, also, and was mischievous and boisterous. ...
He, again, was one of the overactive type, the symptoms being attributable to a ..."
4. Naval Officers: Their Heredity and Development by Charles Benedict Davenport (1919)
"We may reckon the temperaments as overactive, hyperkinetic; underactive, ...
The choleric person is overactive, starts on new lines of work before ..."
5. A Treatise on Orthopaedic Surgery by Royal Whitman (1919)
"These operations have been conducted for the purpose of weakening the power of
the spastic muscle and thereby lessening the disparity between the overactive ..."
6. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"Frederick Müller in 1893 recognized that there was increased protein destruction
in overactive thyroid glands and consequently an increased metabolic rate. ..."
7. A Treatise on Orthopaedic Surgery by Royal Whitman (1919)
"These operations have been conducted for the purpose of weakening the power of
the spastic muscle and thereby lessening the disparity between the overactive ..."
8. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"Frederick Müller in 1893 recognized that there was increased protein destruction
in overactive thyroid glands and consequently an increased metabolic rate. ..."
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