Overachiever

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who overachieves; one who has too much success.

    "It is the portrait of one of the great teacher-parents, a zealot of European high culture self-confidently at work before the time that turned such a parent into a selfish tyrant and such a child into an "overachiever," to use the philistine label which conveys the contemporary disdain for precocity and intellectual ardor."

  2. 2
    a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated wordnet

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"Ziri has always tried to be an overachiever."

Etymology

From overachieve + -er or over- + achiever.

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