overschooled
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]overschooled
- simple past and past participle of overschool
Adjective
[edit]overschooled (comparative more overschooled, superlative most overschooled)
- Schooled too much.
- 1897, Silas Weir Mitchell, Wear and Tear: Or, Hints for the Overworked, page 63:
- Next to these come merchants in general, brokers, etc.; then less frequently clergymen; still less often lawyers; and more rarely doctors; while distressing cases are apt to occur among the overschooled young of both sexes.
- 2008 May 4, Andrew Ferguson, “Don’t Know Much About History”, in New York Times[1]:
- In that book as in this one, Horwitz assumes the pose of a baby-boomer Everyman, overschooled but undereducated.