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

But that was ambiguous enough for some overeager follow-up reports to mistake the book for the kill-and-tell that many had always assumed Finke would eventually write. — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026

As Matt Reeves is hard at work in Gotham City, James Gunn is quelling some overeager fans about the timeline of the Batman trilogy. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026

To some experts, the timelines and scale just seem overeager. — Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 12 June 2026

The reason goes deeper than bad technology or overeager vendors. — Matt Emma, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1575, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for overeager

• eager
• leaguer
• meager
• meagre
• segar