Definition of Overthink

1. Verb. To think or analyze too much. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overthink

1. [v -THOUGHT, -THINKING, -THINKS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overthink

overteems
overtempt
overtempted
overtempting
overtempts
overtest
overtested
overtesting
overtests
overtheorize
overtheorized
overtheorizes
overtheorizing
overthick
overthin
overthink (current term)
overthinker
overthinkers
overthinking
overthinks
overthought
overthrew
overthrow
overthrowal
overthrowals
overthrower
overthrowers
overthroweth
overthrowing
overthrown

Literary usage of Overthink

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Religio Chemici: Essays by George Wilson (1862)
"It cannot help us if we overthink ourselves, and die before our time ; but during life its manners deal in all vital wares. ..."

2. Religio Chemici: Essays by George Wilson (1862)
"It cannot help us if we overthink ourselves, and die before our time ; but during life its mariners deal in all vital wares. ..."

3. The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G. C. B by John William Kaye (1856)
"... our general error is to overthink our subject, to suppose extremes, and to give to motives a shape and action more suited generally to the theory of our ..."

4. Edinburgh Essays by University of Edinburgh (1857)
"It cannot help us, if we overthink ourselves and die before our time, but during life its mariners deal in all vital wares. As fast as the blacksmith wastes ..."

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