overthink

present singular third person overthinks · participle present overthinking · participle past overthought · past overthought

1. To think or analyze too much.

   Don't overthink the problem. It's not that difficult.

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   Mr. Trump “thinks about it as just like whatever entertains him, but as he’s doing that, he’s bringing people together,’” Mr. Ceraso said in a phone interview on Sunday before the event. Democrats, he added, should “stop trying to overthink it.”

   2026 June 14, Bayliss Wagner, “Trump’s U.F.C. Event Comes as Backing of Young Men, Once a Strength, Wanes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Antonyms: underthink

2. rareTo think too highly (of); overestimate

   So to think of self as not to overthink — to think of yourself with sober, moral judgment.

   1859, Henry Ward Beecher, Sermons, page 25

   Synonyms: overapproximate, overstate, overapproximate, overestimate, overhold, overrate, overreckon, overstate · Antonyms: understate, misunderestimate, sell short, underapproximate, underestimate, underguess, underjudge, underrate

present singular third person overthinks · participle present overthinking · participle past overthought · past overthought

1. archaicTo think about; think over

   But when I dred that wou'd not work, I overthought me of a Wile How I might at my leisure lurk, My graceless Guardain to beguile.

   1695, J.D. Albany, The Banishment of poverty

   Synonyms: bethink, mull, quander, afterthink, agitate, bethink, call to mind, chew