over-anxious

See also: overanxious

English

Adjective

over-anxious (comparative more over-anxious, superlative most over-anxious)

1. Alternative form of overanxious.
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 227:

     Fanny was confused, but it was the confusion of discontent; while Miss Crawford wondered she did not smile, and thought her over-anxious, or thought her odd, or thought her anything rather than insensible of pleasure in Henry’s attentions.

   • 1873, Emile Gaboriau, translated by Fred[erick] Williams and George A[lexander] O[tis] Ernst, The Widow Lerouge. A Novel., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], page 88, column 1:

     What over-anxious care for details!

   • 1978, Dan Olweus, “Personality factors and aggression: With special reference to violence within the peer group”, in Willard W. Hartup, Jan de Wit, editors, Origins of Aggression, Mouton Publishers, →ISBN, page 267:

     In the case of the whippingboys, however, the closeness of the relationship was often given a somewhat negative interpretation by the teachers: The parents were over-anxious, ‘cottoned’ the boy, were overprotective.

   • 1995, T. M. Perry, Music Lessons for Children with Special Needs, London, Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 64:

     It is so easy for over-anxious singers to squeak, to mispitch a note, or to forget the words, that the teacher must display absolute faith in his or her pupils’ ability to produce something of value.