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Conscientious vs Overconscientious - What's the difference?

conscientious | overconscientious |

As adjectives the difference between conscientious and overconscientious

is that conscientious is thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well while overconscientious is excessively conscientious.

conscientious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well.
  • He was a thoughtful and conscientious worker.

    Antonyms

    * capricious * impulsive

    Derived terms

    * conscientiously * conscientiousness * conscientious objector

    overconscientious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Excessively conscientious.
  • *, II.33:
  • *:If he were not over consciencious in that under colour of some treatie, parle or accord, to take any advantage of his enemies: he was as little scrupulous, in that "he required no other vertue in his Souldiers but valour".
  • *2001 , James Meikle, The Guardian , 15 March:
  • *:Are you an obsessive lover of routine, overconscientious , and think cleanliness is next to godliness? Beware. You may be nearly twice as likely to die from a heart attack as more laid back friends and colleagues.