overachiever

Definitions

One who overachieves; one who has too much success.

Equivalents

Examples

“It is the portrait of one of the great teacher-parents, a zealot of European high culture self-confidently at work⟳ before the time that turned such a parent into a selfish tyrant and such a child into an "overachiever," to use⟳ the philistine label⟳ which conveys the contemporary disdain for precocity and intellectual ardor.”

“But none of those is true for Mr. de Rothschild, who belongs instead to a multihyphened class of overachievers: eco-adventurer and green-evangelist.”

“The hyperfit athlete and the frail elderly woman are alike in that they are made in God's image. The lost rebellious teenager, the college overachiever, and the self-conscious middle schooler are all image bearers.”

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