overcompensate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
he is compensating for being a bad father
Types & categories
- counterbalance hypernym
Related & opposite
- compensation derivation
- overcompensation derivation
- underwrite verb group
Sense 2 verb
make excessive corrections for fear of making an error
Types & categories
- redress hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | compensation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | overcompensation |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | underwrite |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | counterbalance |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | redress |