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over-aˈchiever Psychol.
[f. over- 22 + achiever.]
One who achieves more, as a result of environmental or personality factors, than tests based only on intelligence predict; someone who achieves more than is expected.
1953Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. XLVIII. 533/1 Ambitious students regularly achieve beyond their predicted ‘aptitude’ by dint of hard work; such ‘overachievers’ will not usually fail. Ibid. 534/2 Overachievers among public school boys who are most frequently and fiercely driven by ambition. 1964M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. ii. 26 There is evidence that people who produce a lot of achievement imagery tend to be over-achievers at school work. 1973Times 17 Nov. 12/2 Mr Kirstein turned out to be one of nature's over-achievers. He founded a great American school of ballet. 1975Listener 13 Mar. 331/2, I would never have been an over-achiever if it hadn't been for that unhappy love-affair with my mother. 1976Kingston (Ontario) Whig-Standard 10 Jan. 6/3 It is even more boring than all those grabbers about the man of the year, the women of the year, and grannies, do-gooders, athletes, tots, and other over achievers of the year.
So over-aˈchieve v. trans. and intr.; over-aˈchievement; overaˈchieving vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1953Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. XLVIII. 533/2 Academic overachieving and underachieving were measured by the difference between a man's Predictive Rank List..and his attained Rank List. Ibid. 536/1 Academically acceptable groups who are over- and underachieving. 1961J. S. Bruner in Harvard Educ. Rev. XXXI. 26 Our tests on such children show them to be lower in analytic ability than those who are not conspicuous in overachievement. 1967Economist 2 Sept. 788/2 Mr Funston has..over-achieved his goal of selling America on the delights of investing. 1968N.Y. Times 2 May 58 This succinct yet passionate ballet overachieves its immediate purpose by choreographically summing up the Dumas story with a series of brilliantly visualized cinematic-style vignettes. 1971Time 15 Feb. 33 When the ‘morning after’ rolls around, many an overachieving boozer prays for a hangover cure. 1972Accountant 6 Apr. 444/1 Where budgetary control is employed..the sales variance analyses would explain the reasons for over- or under-achievement. 1973Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. CXXIII. 252 Overachieving high school males tend to rely less on RV. 1976Woman's Day (N.Y.) Nov. 54/2 David continued to ‘overachieve’ all through high school, college and a distinguished law school. |