overreaching

Examples

• All

• I think it's the, it's the defining issue of maybe that's overreaching, but it is certainly one of the most important issues of our time.

• Chief Judge Kathy Hardcastle is, in turn, cast by Halverson as an imperious, overreaching, and abusive person, who over several years has leveled a series of personal and professional attacks.

  Academic text (2007)

• That speech, widely derided at the time as unrealistic and overreaching, if not.

  Blog text (5)

• I think a lot of men see feminism as overreaching from from beyond equality into retribution.

  Chris Williamson

• My point is about the need for government intervention with extremely stringent, overreaching laws that cause clear collateral damage.

  Blog text (4)

• I don't think that's overreaching to say that when you look at what's happening right now, we're seeing the early stages of what could become a failed state.

• Maybe something like this is going on: there's a correlation between a) an individual's commitment to their preferred ideology and b) the degree to which they believe people implementing other ideologies are both recklessly incompetent and overreaching.

  Blog text (13)

• His overreaching ambition led him to take on projects far beyond his expertise.

• The company's overreaching policies left employees feeling micromanaged and undervalued.

Synonyms

O

overconfident

vsoverreaching

19 5.3

To believe you can do more than you really can

leads to trying to achieve more than is reasonable rather than mere confidence

O

overweening

vsoverreaching

• Formal

2 9.8

Too much pride and confidence that makes people dislike you

focuses more on attempting excessive achievements than on pride itself

O

overambitious

vsoverreaching

1 5.3

Having goals that are too high to reach

aims beyond reasonable limits because of excessive self-confidence and ambition

O

overoptimistic

vsoverreaching

1 5.1

Expecting only very good results that are unlikely to happen

pushes toward unreasonable goals by ambition rather than by hopeful expectation

V

vaultingly ambitious

vsoverreaching

• Literature

8.7

Wanting very great success that is unlikely to happen

expresses the same drive but with general excessive self-belief

V

vaulting

vsoverreaching

• Literature

8.2

Showing too much pride and wanting to reach very high goals

is the act of pushing too far driven by excessive confidence

O

overlofty

vsoverreaching

8.2

Having goals or ideas that are too high and unrealistic

leans more toward attempting too much because of inflated self-belief

Antonyms

M

modest

81 2.7

Not thinking you are better than others and not boasting

How Ambitious

overreaching

1 7.3

ambitious

128 3.7

unambitious

3 4.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology