overindustrious

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ industrious.

Adjective

overindustrious (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of over-industrious.
   • 1898, Amos Kidder Fiske, The Story of the Philippines: A Popular Account of the Islands from Their Discovery by Magellan to the Capture by Dewey, page 25:

     There are lizards and snakes, frogs and crabs, tarantulas and spiders, hornets and beetles, and the greatest nuisance of all is the swarming and overindustrious ant. Overindustrious creatures are always a nuisance.

   • 1995, Joel J. Kupperman, Character, page 10:

     It may be that there is no time when one could not be doing something for a child or the well-being of the Acme Bolt Company or the local Democratic party; although a wise person will not be overindustrious.

   • 2011, Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, Oxford University Press, page 128:

     Instead, he saw himself as running away from an overindustrious past and getting free of any steady employment—getting free to ramble in a way that no black person could safely do.