overcompartmentalize

verb

To compartmentalize more than is suitable or necessary.

Similar
overcategorizeoverclassify
OriginEnglish compartmentalize ← Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? ← Middle French compartiment →
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Meanings

verbovercompartmentalize (third-person singular simple present overcompartmentalizes, present participle overcompartmentalizing, simple past and past participle overcompartmentalized)

present singular third person overcompartmentalizes · participle present overcompartmentalizing · participle past overcompartmentalized · past overcompartmentalized

  1. transitiveTo compartmentalize more than is suitable or necessary.

    Synonyms: overcategorize, overclassify

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo compartmentalize more than is suitable or necessary.

Similar
overcategorizeoverclassify
Also see
overcategorize

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  8. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  9. Proto-Italic*kom
  10. Proto-Italic*kom-
  11. Latincom-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*perh₃-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*pérh₃tis?
  14. Proto-Italic*partis
  15. Latinpars
  16. Latinpartiō
  17. Latinpartior
  18. Latincompartīrī
  19. Italiancompartire
  20. Italiancompartimento
  21. Middle Frenchcompartiment
  22. Englishcompartment
  23. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  24. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  25. Englishcompartmental
  26. Englishcompartmentalize
  27. Englishovercompartmentalize

From over- + compartmentalize.

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