too-careful

1. 1.

   excessively or unduly careful

   Synonymsovercareful

   Similarcareful

Questions about too-careful

What does too-careful mean?

too-careful means "excessively or unduly careful".

How many syllables are in too-careful?

too-careful has 4 syllables: too--ca-re-ful. The stress falls on "ca".

What is another word for too-careful?

Close synonyms include overcareful. 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 too-careful a common word?

too-careful 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.