Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of over-industrious.
Instead, he saw himself as running away from an overindustrious past and getting free of any steady employment—getting free to ramble in a way that no black person could safely do.
2011, Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, Oxford University Press, page 1282 more examples
There are lizards and snakes, frogs and crabs, tarantulas and spiders, hornets and beetles, and the greatest nuisance of all is the swarming and overindustrious ant. Overindustrious creatures are always a nuisance.
1898, Amos Kidder Fiske, The Story of the Philippines: A Popular Account of the Islands from Their Discovery by Magellan to the Capture by Dewey, page 25It may be that there is no time when one could not be doing something for a child or the well-being of the Acme Bolt Company or the local Democratic party; although a wise person will not be overindustrious.
1995, Joel J. Kupperman, Character, page 10
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