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overcompensate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | over-correct |
| Type of | correct, right, redress, compensate |
overcompensate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | compensate, cover |
| Type of | even out, even up, make up, compensate, correct, counterbalance, even off |
| Verb group | insure, cover, underwrite |
| Derivation | overcompensation |
Examples of overcompensate
overcompensate
Try to do as well as you can in your weaker subjects, but don't overcompensate.
From the charlotteobserver.com
This may be because they overcompensate for society's expectations, she suggests.
From the newscientist.com
When we doubt ourselves, we hesitate, overcompensate and become self-conscious.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Would that make him overcompensate by trying to prove he's a real macho man?
From the orlandosentinel.com
You don't want to overcompensate and change your mechanics, and hurt something else.
From the sfgate.com
Sometimes the booking system will overcompensate and be forced to reduce fares again.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The art doesn't try to overcompensate for the commonplace setting, though.
From the usatoday.com
So, they do not have to overcompensate in its design to ensure operational efficiency.
From the sciencedaily.com
They intensify blue, causing red and green to overcompensate in the image.
From the nytimes.com
- Cover: make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities; "he is compensating for being a bad father"
- Over-correct: make excessive corrections for fear of making an error
- (overcompensation) (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite
- (overcompensation) excessive compensation
- (Overcompensating) Jeffrey J. Rowland (born May 22, 1974) is the author and artist responsible for Wigu and Overcompensating, two popular webcomics. ...
- (Overcompensation) In linguistics, hypercorrection is defined as usage of some rule of pronunciation or grammatical prescription that many users of a language consider incorrect, but that the speaker or writer uses through misunderstanding of these rules, often combined with a desire to seem ...
- To do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area; To provide excessive pay or reward for work performed
- (Overcompensation) Tendency of body to elevate performance capability as a response to workload or increased training stress
