overqualify

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ qualify.

Verb

overqualify (third-person singular simple present overqualifies, present participle overqualifying, simple past and past participle overqualified)

1. (transitive) To give excessive academic qualifications to.
   • 2001, Charles A. Jaffe, The Right Way to Hire Financial Help, 2nd edition, page 270:

     […] remember it is better to overqualify advisers than to make assumptions about their abilities.

2. (transitive) To modify, restrict or moderate (a statement, etc.) excessively.
   • 2003, Linda Papadopoulos, Malcolm Cross, Robert Bor, Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy, page 59:

     I do have a tendency sometimes to overqualify what I am saying or labour the point.