overinvolved

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

over- +‎ involved

Adjective[edit]

overinvolved (comparative more overinvolved, superlative most overinvolved)

  1. Excessively involved.
    • 2009 February 22, Elsa Dixler, “Paperback Row”, in New York Times[1]:
      A young couple’s marriage is threatened when the husband, a social worker, becomes overinvolved with a disturbed client in this well-written novel, Gaige’s second.