overactive
Americanadjective
adjective
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inordinately active
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(of the thyroid or adrenal gland, nervous system, etc) functioning at too high a capacity
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Example Sentences
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“As most fiction, it is a composite, an amalgam of personal experience, research and my fertile, overactive imagination,” Raicek said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Koy, the son of a white father and Filipina mother, saw comedy as a way to channel an overactive personality and need to make people laugh into a career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
"I'm a fierce perfectionist and there is an overactive, hugely self-critical voice in my head - my whole life is an exercise in trying to shake that," he says.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
Additional work will also explore how disease-related declines in PIP2 remove this regulatory control, allowing Piezo1 to remain overactive and impair cerebral blood flow.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025
"And why were you wasting precious time listening to an overaged delivery boy with an overactive imagination when you should have been studying."
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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