overinvolved
- adjective
- /ˌoʊvərɪnˈvɑlvd/
:
excesivamente involucrado
- His overinvolved nature made it hard for him to let his children make their own choices.
- an overinvolved mother
Examples
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The committee was tired of the overinvolved members who never let others speak.
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Would she behave the way her own mother had—overinvolved, frenetic, or would she find her own style?
Fiction book (2000) -
Insulated lunch bags: a way to save the planet, or a sign of an overinvolved mother?
Fiction book (1999) -
Overinvolved parents are characterized by excessive attendance at practice sessions, standing next to the coach, and yelling (Hellstedt, 1987).
Academic text (2015) -
In the opinion of the treatment team, Carolyn Broome is becoming overinvolved in her mother's illness, letting her own psychological needs push her into making decisions that are increasingly inappropriate.
Academic text (1998) -
"Faute de mieux friends," was Billy's term for the people we knew out there, people with whom, according to him, I tended to become overinvolved ("But how can you care what Nancy thinks?
Fiction book (1999) -
Hellstedt (1987) used a parental involvement continuum from underinvolved to moderate to overinvolved to describe the amount of involvement that parents have in their children's sport activities.
Academic text (2015) -
She tends to be overinvolved in her friends' problems, often offering unsolicited advice.
Synonyms
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Being too careful or worried about someone in a way that feels annoying
A person who tries to control other people's lives
Antonyms
How Involved
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Overinvolved comes from the prefix over- meaning 'too much' and involved, which once meant 'wrapped in'. So a person who is overinvolved is 'too wrapped in' a situation, meaning they are too active or too engaged where it is not needed.