📖 Definitions of "Overreact"
verb
- 1
To react too much or too intensely.
"Please try not to overreact if she drives badly when she is first learning."
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Overreact"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| exaggerateverb | To overstate, to describe more than the fact. |
| blow out of proportionverb | (transitive, idiomatic) To overreact to or overstate; to treat too seriously or be overly concerned with. |
| overrespondverb | (intransitive) To respond excessively. |
| hyperreactnoun | Synonym of overreact. |
| overemotionalizeverb | (transitive) To make too emotional. |
| overagitateverb | To agitate excessively. |
| overfeelverb | To feel excessively or to too great an extent. |
| overactverb | (chiefly acting) To act in an exaggerated manner. |
| overdoverb | (transitive) To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to carry too far. |
| overactivateverb | To activate excessively |
| overexaggerateverb | To exaggerate, to overstate excessively. |
| overadjustverb | (transitive) To adjust excessively or too precisely. |
| overprovokeverb | To provoke excessively. |
| hyperexaggerateverb | To exaggerate to an extreme degree. |
| oversensationalizeverb | (transitive) To sensationalize too much. |
| overadaptverb | (ambitransitive) To adapt excessively. |
| go overboardverb | (intransitive, idiomatic) To go too far; to exceed reasonable bounds. |
| overplayverb | (ambitransitive, acting) To overdo or overact one's effect or role. |
| overdramatizeverb | To dramatize to excess; to make overdramatic. |
| overanalyzeverb | (transitive) To analyze too much or in too much detail. |
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