Overcaution
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 excessive caution uncountable
Verb
- 1 To caution excessively. transitive
"Perhaps more importantly, his father was absent from home most of the time and his mother added to his timidity by overcautioning him against getting hurt."
Example
More examples"Perhaps more importantly, his father was absent from home most of the time and his mother added to his timidity by overcautioning him against getting hurt."
Etymology
From over- + caution.
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