Meaning of over-anxious | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“Fanny was confused, but it was the confusion of discontent; while Miss⟳ Crawford wondered she did not smile⟳, and thought her over-anxious, or thought her odd, or thought her anything rather than insensible of pleasure in Henry’s attentions.”

“What over-anxious care for details!”

“In the case of the whippingboys, however, the closeness of the relationship was often given a somewhat negative interpretation by the teachers: The parents were over-anxious, ‘cottoned’ the boy, were overprotective.”

“It is so easy for over-anxious singers to squeak, to mispitch a note⟳, or to forget⟳ the words, that the teacher must display absolute faith in his or her pupils’ ability to produce⟳ something of value.”

CEFR level