overcautious
Use Overcautious in a sentence
vərˈkɔ adjective
excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
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| overcautious | |
adjective | |
| unnecessarily cautious; "sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business" |
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Overcautious
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example sentences
Often similar overcautious conclusions are drawn in relation to other forms of limits.
For critics these same traits make the president dithering, overcautious and even bland.
His left-wing hecklers see him as an overcautious hedger.
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