Definition of Overalert

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overalert

overadvertising
overaffect
overaffected
overaffecting
overaffects
overage
overaged
overages
overaggressive
overaggressively
overaggressiveness
overagitate
overagitated
overagitates
overagitating
overalert (current term)
overalkylation
overall
overall response rate
overalled
overallocated
overallocation
overalls
overambition
overambitious
overambitiously
overamped
overamplification
overamplified
overamplifies

Literary usage of Overalert

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

1. The Exceptional Child by Maximilian Paul Eugen Groszmann (1917)
"Stunted growth and underdeveloped functioning, coupled with overalert and precocious mentality, will predispose a child for a collapse. ..."

2. The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man by Lothrop Stoddard (1922)
"Calm consciousness of power and mastery, the unaffected glow of health, threaten to become lost sensations. overalert self- consciousness associated with a ..."

3. Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life by Norman B. Anderson, Rodolfo A. Bulatao, Barney Cohen (2004)
"This overalert state also has been linked to decreased cardiac output and increased peripheral vascular resistance (Winters, McCabe, Green, and Schneiderman ..."

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