overcareful
- s excessively or unduly careful
- Osborne's Olympian contempt for his superiors, his overcareful pronunciation of French words ("mem-wah"), the modest shock value of a Princeton man spicing every sentence with the .
- Brought up by an overcareful mother, he had not followed his gay and reckless stepfather into the professional life of the circus.
- But it cannot be overcareful.