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Overeducated vs Overeducate - What's the difference?

overeducated | overeducate |

As verbs the difference between overeducated and overeducate

is that overeducated is (overeducate) while overeducate is to educate too much.

As an adjective overeducated

is having received too much education.

overeducated

English

Alternative forms

*over-educated

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having received too much education
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 23, Dwight Garner, The Mahvelous and the Damned, New York Times citation
    • , passage=The Bright Young People were the most glamorous, influential, self-absorbed, quasi-bohemian and overeducated creatures in existence. }}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (overeducate)

    • overeducate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * over-educate

    Verb

    (overeducat)
  • To educate too much.
  • * 1876 , , High Old Salts , page 12:
    • You cannot overeducate the man you place in charge of a steam engine on board of a ship, and on whose judgment and skill a thousand valuable lives, to say nothing of property, may depend.
  • * 1921 , J. Anderson Smith, "The Foreign Field", Mother and Child , volume 2, page 373:
    • They are drilled and attend school on the premises, being taught by a capable mistress who understands their disabilities, and does not overeducate them, and yet tries to prevent their minds becoming fallow.
  • * 2004 , Patricia Lewin, Out of Reach , Ballantine Books, ISBN 0-345-44321-7, page 177:
    • “You know, one thing I find particularly unpleasant about you Americans is your tendency to overeducate your women.”