overindustrious

overindustrious

English

Adjective

overindustrious (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of over-industrious.
   • 1898, Amos Kidder Fiske, The Story of the Philippines: A Popular Account of the Islands from Their Discovery by Magellan to the Capture by Dewey, page 25.

     There are lizards and snakes, frogs and crabs, tarantulas and spiders, hornets and beetles, and the greatest nuisance of all is the swarming and overindustrious ant. Overindustrious creatures are always a nuisance.

   • 1995, Joel J. Kupperman, Character, page 10.

     It may be that there is no time when one could not be doing something for a child or the well-being of the Acme Bolt Company or the local Democratic party; although a wise person will not be overindustrious.

   • 2011, Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, Oxford University Press, page 128.

     Instead, he saw himself as running away from an overindustrious past and getting free of any steady employment—getting free to ramble in a way that no black person could safely do.