overquick

[ oh-ver-kwik ]

adjective

1. too quick:

   Let's not be overquick to criticize.

Other Words From

• over·quickly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of overquick¹

First recorded in 1530–40; over- + quick

Example Sentences

As the capitao says, we soldiers are sometimes overquick.

From Project Gutenberg

And one with a vile and overquick temper, as he had proved in Venice.

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But at the top of the second stairs he was overquick for her.

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A Yorkshireman might have answered this complaint, if he thought it deserving of an answer, by requesting Master Mordacks not to be so overquick, but to bide a wee bit longer before he made so sure of the vast superiority of his own wit, for the long heads might prove better than the sharp ones in the end of it.

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"That's Mr. Waymark," cried out Master Percy Tootle, when his overquick eyes perceived that the two had seen each other.

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