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Definition of Overcautious
1. Adjective. Unnecessarily cautious. "Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business"
Definition of Overcautious
1. a. Too cautious; cautious or prudent to excess.
Definition of Overcautious
1. Adjective. Excessively cautious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overcautious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcautious
Literary usage of Overcautious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judge's Library: A Monthly Magazine of Fun (1887)
"... overcautious. BRIDGE POLICEMAN—" Kim doon out o' thot now an' open the dure
uv yer wagin. It's not me that'll be havin' any av thim ..."
2. Capital (1888)
"But in checking this trend, banks should not follow an overcautious policy which
may actually affect production and slow down the rate of growth of the ..."
3. History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1862)
"5th April, 1742. piqued that Valori, not Broglio, had started the thing—showed
himself captious, dark, hysterically effervescent, now overcautious, ..."
4. School Supervision by Josiah Little Pickard (1895)
"overcautious teachers may neglect favorable opportunities of building character.
There is a golden mean. It is the superintendent's province to discover it, ..."
5. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... timid (1. faint-hearted I. overcautious) fellow; (pel- kurl) coward, ...
be shy; be overcautious (1. very careful); hesitate; ..."
6. Wills, Estates, and Trusts: A Manual of Law, Accounting, and Procedure, for by Thomas Conyngton, Harold C. Knapp, Paul Whittier Pinkerton (1921)
"Even with the greatest care it is easy to err, either by being too lenient or by
being overcautious. Of the two dangers, it is better to err by being ..."
7. Aviation Medicine in the A. E. F. by William Holland Wilmer (1920)
"In many instances accidents have been ascribed to overcautious- ness. ...
The student who is overcautious should be warned. He needs special attention just ..."
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