overeager

adjective

over·​ea·​ger ˌō-vər-ˈē-gər 

: excessively eager

an overeager look in her eyes

… overeager young fans offered him anything they could find to autograph …

—Joe Coscarelli

During the Gold Rush, overeager miners actually dug up city streets in search of placer gold deposits.

—Lora J. Finnegan

overeagerly adverb

… its forthright portrait of a needy man, overeagerly pushing for his chance of happiness …

—Mark Shenton

overeagerness noun

What troubles me is the overeagerness to weigh in with the male side of every women's issue …

—Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Examples of overeager in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The organization had rules to stop those kinds of pay-for-play shenanigans and investigators to chase down overeager boosters, who mostly eluded their grasp. —Joe Drape, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024

The documentary — and Guetta’s fame — was intended as a biting commentary on the ignorant, overeager commercialization of street art. —Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024

To be sure, the technology is still in its early stages, and governments will need to make policy to protect existing workers from unscrupulous applications of the technology (and perhaps even overeager cost-cutters in company leadership). —Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024

Dexter is a scientific-minded boy who conducts experiments in his hidden laboratory, though his inventions often go awry due to his overeager personality. —Will Harris, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2023

Back then, entire scenes and careers blossomed thanks to websites run by overeager nerds who fawned over artists no one else cared about. —Isabelia Herrera, Pitchfork, 28 Nov. 2023

Frantically loud orchestral playing, under the overeager baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, only amplified the music’s limitations. —Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023

Swift introduced Ice Spice, while Kelce made a cameo in a sketch about the NFL's overeager response to his budding romance with the pop star. —Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2023

Season 2 features plenty of cameos, including fashion designer Sabyasachi and filmmaker Anurag Kashyap playing themselves, respectively, and former Netflix India international original films head and current Phantom Studios CEO Srishti Behl as an overeager relative at a wedding. —Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1575, in the meaning defined above