overcareful

1. 1.

   excessively or unduly careful

   Synonymstoo-careful

   Similarcareful

Questions about overcareful

What does overcareful mean?

overcareful means "excessively or unduly careful".

How many syllables are in overcareful?

overcareful has 5 syllables: o-ver-ca-re-ful. The stress falls on "ca".

What is another word for overcareful?

Close synonyms include too-careful. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overcareful a common word?

overcareful is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.