overqualified

[oh-ver-kwol-uh-fahyd]

adjective

1. having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.

overqualified

/ ˌəʊvəˈkwɒlɪˌfaɪd /

adjective

1. having more managerial experience or academic qualifications than required for a particular job

Word History and Origins

Origin of overqualified¹

First recorded in 1950–55; over- + qualified

Example Sentences

Currently limited to one East Hollywood location, “DMV” rotates around Harriet Dyer as Colette, a young woman who gives driving tests, is desperately overqualified for her job and is far too nice for it anyway.

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To mitigate any disappointment, Van Der Beek said he will be replaced by his “ridiculously overqualified” understudy: Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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Gilchrist scored 17 Test hundreds as he switched between a destroyer of tiring attacks to a man overqualified for a rebuild from number seven when the great Australian top order did fail.

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By Trump standards, Rubio is massively overqualified, being an actual senator who has served on the foreign relations committee.

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Wilbur Smith executives regarded Ms. Haley as overqualified for the accounting job.

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