overinvolved

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adjective

Excessively involved.

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Meanings

adjectiveoverinvolved (comparative more overinvolved, superlative most overinvolved)

comparative more overinvolved · superlative most overinvolved

  1. Excessively involved.

    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.

    2009 February 22, Elsa Dixler, “Paperback Row”, in New York Times

Origin

From over- + involved.

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APA

overinvolved. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overinvolved

MLA

“overinvolved.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overinvolved. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overinvolved,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overinvolved.

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