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Adjective overzealous has 1 sense
- overzealous(s = adj.all) fanatic, fanatical, rabid - marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
overzealous, adj. too zealous in one's attitude, behaviour, etc.; excessively enthusiastic.
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overzeal n.
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overzealous
accident-prone, at fever pitch, balking, balky, bigoted, breakneck, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, careless, case-hardened, delirious, desperate, devil-may-care, dogged, dogmatic, extravagant, extreme, extremist, fanatic, fanatical, febrile, feverish, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, haggard, hardheaded, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, headstrong, hectic, hotheaded, hurried, hysteric, impetuous, infatuated, inordinate, insane, intolerant, irrational, mad, mulish, obstinate, opinionated, overanxious, overdesirous, overdevout, overeager, overenthusiastic, overreligious, overrighteous, perfervid, persevering, pertinacious, pigheaded, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, rabid, reckless, restive, sanctimonious, self-willed, set, slap-bang, slapdash, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, sulky, sullen, tenacious, ultrareligious, ultrazealous, uncooperative, unreasonable, unregenerate, wanton, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, willful, zealotic, zealousROGET THESAURUS
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Excitability
N excitability, impetuosity, vehemence, boisterousness, turbulence, impatience, intolerance, nonendurance, irritability, itching, wincing, disquiet, disquietude, restlessness, fidgets, fidgetiness, agitation, trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry, fluster, flutter, pother, stew, ferment, whirl, buck fever, hurry-skurry, thrill, state of excitement, fever of excitement, transport, passion, excitement, flush, heat, fever, heat, fire, flame, fume, blood boiling, tumult, effervescence, ebullition, boiling over, whiff, gust, story, tempest, scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm, explosion, outbreak, outburst, agony, violence, fierceness, rage, fury, furor, furore, desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium, phrensy, frenzy, hysterics, intoxication, tearing passion, raging passion, anger, fascination, infatuation, fanaticism, Quixotism, Quixotry, tete montee, excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state, high-strung, irritable, impatient, intolerant, feverish, febrile, hysterical, delirious, mad, moody, maggoty- headed, unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless, fidgety, fussy, chafing, startlish, mettlesome, high-mettled, skittish, vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-headed, madcap, overzealous, enthusiastic, impassioned, fanatical, rabid, rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous, tumultuary, boisterous, impulsive, impetuous, passionate, uncontrolled, uncontrollable, ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless, inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile, excited, exciting, Int, pish!, pshaw!, noli me tangere, filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd, maggiore fretta minore atto.
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