overachiever
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- noun
- /ˌoʊvərəˈtʃivər/
- In the office, she is considered an overachiever because she always exceeds her performance targets.
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Watch on YouTubeMany survivors of narcissistic relationships are overachievers and go way above and beyond.
- Many survivors of narcissistic relationships are overachievers and go way above and beyond.
- I think a lot of, I don't know what to call just say maybe overachievers or people that, that find success and extreme success in what they're doing.
- Ali Abdul Pilled and I I think that there is an argument to be made for, for insecure overachievers like us.
- Priority dilution is the chronic overachievers form of procrastination.
- I remember at that point I was in my height of my overachiever workaholism.
Examples
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Only the overachievers were out, heads down on their way to physics, music, and math.
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I mean, you're a classic overachiever.
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Um, yeah, I mean, I was a complete overachiever, but I had no idea what I wanted to do.
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You know, Jim Ross called me the greatest overachiever ever.
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You are such an overachiever.
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I have two younger brothers who are overachievers as well.
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I guess I've just always been a real overachiever.
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I was the youngest in a family of overachievers.
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Natalie is the good girl—she's smart, an overachiever, and is running for Student Council.
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I am a full-time mom, full-time overachiever, part-time massage therapist, vegetarian, and compulsive exerciser.
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Synonyms
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A person who reaches their goals through hard work and skill
A person who often reaches their goals
A person who is very skilled at a particular activity
Antonyms
How Successful
Surface Forms
Morphology
overachiever = overachieve (transparent) = over + achieve + er
Regular agentive noun formed from the verb 'overachieve' by adding '-er', yielding 'a person who overachieves'.
Etymology
Overachiever comes from the prefix over- meaning 'beyond' and the verb achieve meaning 'to reach a goal', so it literally describes someone who goes beyond what is expected. That's why an overachiever is a person who does better or achieves more than expected.