overschooled

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of overschool

comparative more overschooled · superlative most overschooled

1. Schooled too much.

   In that book as in this one, Horwitz assumes the pose of a baby-boomer Everyman, overschooled but undereducated.

   2008 May 4, Andrew Ferguson, “Don’t Know Much About History”, in New York Times

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   Next to these come merchants in general, brokers, etc.; then less frequently clergymen; still less often lawyers; and more rarely doctors; while distressing cases are apt to occur among the overschooled young of both sexes.

   1897, Silas Weir Mitchell, Wear and Tear: Or, Hints for the Overworked, page 63