overachiever

See also: over-achiever

English

Alternative forms

• over-achiever

Etymology

From overachieve +‎ -er or over- +‎ achiever.

Pronunciation

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Noun

overachiever (plural overachievers)

1. One who overachieves; one who has too much success. [from 1950s]

   Antonym: underachiever

   • 1980, Susan Sontag, “Mind as Passion”, in Under the Sign of Saturn, New York: Vintage, published 1981, pages 192–3:

     It is the portrait of one of the great teacher-parents, a zealot of European high culture self-confidently at work before the time that turned such a parent into a selfish tyrant and such a child into an "overachiever," to use the philistine label which conveys the contemporary disdain for precocity and intellectual ardor.

   • 2009 April 19, Jesse Mckinley, “After the Silver Spoon, a Green Life”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     But none of those is true for Mr. de Rothschild, who belongs instead to a multihyphened class of overachievers: eco-adventurer and green-evangelist.

   • 2021, Paul David Tripp, Do You Believe?, Crossway, →ISBN:

     The hyperfit athlete and the frail elderly woman are alike in that they are made in God's image. The lost rebellious teenager, the college overachiever, and the self-conscious middle schooler are all image bearers.

Related terms

• overachieve

Translations

one who overachieves

• Dutch: uitschieter (nl) m
• Finnish: ylisuorittaja
• German: Überleister m, Überleisterin f
• Spanish: sobrelogrador