overschooled

English

Etymology

over- +‎ schooled

Verb

overschooled

  1. simple past and past participle of overschool

Adjective

overschooled (comparative more overschooled, superlative most overschooled)

  1. 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:
      In that book as in this one, Horwitz assumes the pose of a baby-boomer Everyman, overschooled but undereducated.
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