overadjust

verb

over·​ad·​just ˌō-vər-ə-ˈjəst 

overadjusted; overadjusting

transitive + intransitive

: to adjust excessively

overadjust to temporary conditions

Overadjusting the brightness or contrast can hide background features …

—Kaoru Sakabe

Print and screen are different mediums. But Persuasion, the first production from PBS' Complete Jane Austen, badly overadjusts, adding so many fussy modern flourishes and out-of-place romantic gestures it almost undermines the inherent beauty of Austen's work.

—Robert Bianco

overadjustment

ˌō-vər-ə-ˈjəst-mənt 

noun

plural overadjustments

"The first time you go through a rough time, you tend to make overadjustments and you analyze too much."

—Brad Lidge

Word History

First Known Use

1800, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for overadjust

• adjust
• combust
• discussed
• disgust
• distrust
• entrust
• intrust
• mistrust
• nonplussed
• robust
• sawdust
• stardust