overthinkv.¹

Brit.

/ˌəʊvəˈθɪŋk/, U.S.

/ˌoʊvərˈθɪŋk/

Inflections: Past tense and past participle overthought;

Forms: see over- prefix and think v.²

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, think v.²

Etymology: < over- prefix + think v.² With sense 1 compare to think over (see think v.² 3a); with sense 2 compare underthink v. 1. Compare Middle Dutch overdenken (Dutch overdenken ), Middle High German überdenken (German überdenken ), Old Swedish ivirthänkia (Swedish övertänka ), Danish overtænke , all in sense 1.The word apparently became obsolete at the end of the Old English period and was re-formed in the late 15th cent.

1. transitive. To think over, to consider. Now archaic and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > meditate upon [verb (transitive)]

thinkOE

overthinkOE

recorda1400

studya1400

imaginec1405

revolve?c1425

contemplairec1525

brood1589

recollect1626

the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)]

i-thenchec897

showeOE

i-mune971

thinkOE

overthinkOE

takec1175

umbethinkc1175

waltc1200

bethinkc1220

wend?c1225

weighc1380

delivera1382

peisea1382

considerc1385

musec1390

to look over ——a1393

advise?c1400

debatec1400

roll?c1400

revert?a1425

advertc1425

deliberc1425

movec1425

musec1425

revolvec1425

contemplec1429

overseec1440

to think overc1440

perpend1447

roil1447

pondera1450

to eat inc1450

involvec1470

ponderate?a1475

reputec1475

counterpoise1477

poisea1483

traversec1487

umbecast1487

digest1488

undercast1489

overhalec1500

rumble1519

volve?1520

compassa1522

recount1526

trutinate1528

cast1530

expend1531

ruminate1533

concoct1534

contemplate1538

deliberate1540

revolute1553

chawa1558

to turn over1568

cud1569

cogitate1570

huik1570

chew1579

meditatec1580

discourse1581

speculate1599

theorize1599

scance1603

verse1614

pensitate1623

agitate1629

spell1633

study1659

designa1676

introspect1683

troll1685

balance1692

to figure on or upon1837

reflect1862

mull1873

to mull over1874

scour1882

mill1905

OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xxxvii. 316 Gif hit byð wel asmead & oferþoht.

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 17 Whan I haue wel ouerthought these saide thinges I answere yow.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xix. 418 Yf ye overthynke wel al, ye shall fynde that [etc.].

1903 J. Payne Vigil & Vision 115 No more the page accomplished I re-read, The script of done and undone, stress and need, Nor overthink the wrongs endured erewhen.

†2. transitive. To think too highly of; to overestimate. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > misjudge [verb (transitive)] > over-estimate or overvalue

to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)c1395

to make of (also on)c1449

to make fair weather of1537

over-reckon1537

overmind1571

overween1588

overprize?1589

overcount1593

overvalue1597

overrate1599

wondernize1599

overhold1609

over-cess1611

overweight1613

overthinka1618

over-title1620

overcast1622

overmeasure1625

over-sum1628

overesteema1639

overproportion1642

outbid1688

overcharge1711

overestimate1797

overreach1822

overplay1835

maximize1866

maximate1881

out-reckon1898

fetishize1934

a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 938 What man, like Iob, himselfe so over-thinks?

1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) xxvi. 398 You may over-think and over-praise Paradise.

3. transitive and intransitive. To consider or ponder too hard or too seriously; to think too much about. Also reflexive: †to exhaust oneself with too much thinking (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (reflexive)] > in specific ways

overrun1533

overthink1628

overmusea1652

over-dance1653

overtravel1654

forfight1661

overwalk1662

over-read1668

overwrite1752

overpreach1865

outwrite1883

overshoot1883

to run out1892

1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. 103 So long the solitary nights did last, That I had leasure my accounts to cast; And think upon, and over-think those things, Which darknesse, lonelinesse, and sorrow brings.

a1652 R. Brome City Wit iii. iv. sig. D6, in Five New Playes (1653) Have you not over-mus'd, or over-thought your selfe?

1718 R. Traill Stedfast Adherence Profession of Faith xviii. 341 I..will advise you accordingly to confine your thoughts to Scripture phrase, about these things, wherein we may over do, and over think, and think amiss.

1857 Edinb. Ess. 1856 314 It cannot help us, if we overthink ourselves and die before our time.

1867 Ladies' Repository July 414/2 We over-think, over-plan, over-work, over-drive, and, like the wicked, we do not live half our days.

1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 May (Sports section) d1 He overthinks on occasions, but he understands the ways of course management.

1987 Telegraph (Brisbane) 8 July 24/2 Scorpio... There is now a tendency to over-think and in the process over-dramatise situations.

2002 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 12 July 10 I could have overthought it and been too careful, but I took a leap.

Derivatives

ˌoverˈthinking adj. and n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > thought > [noun] > excessive thinking

overthinking1703

overthought1839

1703 Poems on Affairs of State II. 211 A Grave Eye, and an Overthinking Face Seem to distinguish him from all his Race.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. iii. 301 It was never their over-thinking that oppress'd them.

a1896 W. Morris Story of Beowulf xxvi, in Coll. Wks. (1910–11) X. 232 Thou best of all men, and choose thee the better, The redes everlasting; to o'erthinking turn not, O mighty of champions!

1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Dec. 25/2 The problem thumb was healed, and the problem of overthinking was solved.

1996 Kindred Spirit Summer 90/2 (advt.) This is a..full guide to the various attributes of individual oils, as well as strategies for healing specific difficulties—like overthinking and worry.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† overthinkv.²

Forms: see over- prefix and think v.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, think v.¹

Etymology: < over- prefix + think v.¹ Compare earlier ofthink v.

Obsolete.

1. transitive. To displease, grieve, vex; to cause regret or repentance to; = ofthink v. Frequently impersonal as me overthinketh or with non-referential it as subject. Cf. forthink v. 1, 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [verb (intransitive)] > feel remorse

ofthinkOE

reusieOE

overthinkc1175

(it) forthinks (me, him, etc.)a1300

forthinkc1380

ruea1400

remordc1450

to rue the day (also hour)c1461

repoin1523

remorse1530

the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > be or become displeased [verb (intransitive)] > displease

loathec893

overthinkc1175

displeasec1400

to stick in the throat (also craw, gizzard, stomach, etc.)c1536

unsavoura1547

distastea1618

disrelish1631

to give (also cause, etc.) offence to1712

spoil sport1869

to get in bad1902

society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > be repentant or contrite [verb (intransitive)]

rueOE

i-rewOE

ofthinkOE

again-chareOE

reusieOE

overthinkc1175

beetc1200

it athinks me1250

to do (also make, etc.) (one's) penancea1300

(it) forthinks (me, him, etc.)a1300

repentc1300

forthinkc1380

remordc1450

repoin1523

remorse1530

to take the rue1789

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8920 Ta þeȝȝ misstenn þeȝȝre child & itt hemm offerrþuhhte.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 19596 Iohan bapptisste wisste itt wel. & itt himm oferrþuhhte.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) 2732 If schoe did it, hir ouerthoght.

a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 130 (MED) ‘Me ouyr-thynkyth þat I met wyth þe, for me semyth þat þu seyst ryth good wordys.’ Than seyd sche vn-to hym, ‘Ser, ouyrthynkyth ne repentith ȝow not þat ȝe met wyth me.’

a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 2350 Hure ouer-þoughte [?a1400 Petyt forþouht] mykel more Þe wraþthe of hure fader þe kyng.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxvii^v I se wel (and that me ouerthynketh) that wytte in the fayleth.

a. intransitive. To feel regret; to be sorry.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [verb (intransitive)]

sorroweOE

aruec1000

ruea1400

overthinka1450

regretc1450

to rue the day (also hour)c1461

fret1551

to cry over spilt milk (or water)1738

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 5639 Thanne ouerthowhte the kyng ful sore..of the dewkys deth.

a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 1721 (MED) Nou it is to late to ouer-think; As I haue brew, so most I drink.

b. transitive. To regret; to repent of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [verb (transitive)]

forthink?a1250

ruea1300

remordc1400

sorrow?a1425

forruec1425

overthinkc1450

regreta1500

deplore1567

grieve1597

unwish1629

repent1631

lament1794

c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) v. 951 Thei shul it ouere-thynke If it be proued thei ȝoue hir eyther mete or drynke.

a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Cambr.) (1879) 332 (MED) Herith my counceill, & ye shull not ouerþink [a1500 BL Add. forthynke] it.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	overthink
释义	overthinkv.¹ Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈθɪŋk/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈθɪŋk/ Inflections: Past tense and past participle overthought; Forms: see over- prefix and think v.² Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, think v.² Etymology: < over- prefix + think v.² With sense 1 compare to think over (see think v.² 3a); with sense 2 compare underthink v. 1. Compare Middle Dutch overdenken (Dutch overdenken ), Middle High German überdenken (German überdenken ), Old Swedish ivirthänkia (Swedish övertänka ), Danish overtænke , all in sense 1.The word apparently became obsolete at the end of the Old English period and was re-formed in the late 15th cent. 1. transitive. To think over, to consider. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > meditate upon [verb (transitive)] thinkOE overthinkOE recorda1400 studya1400 imaginec1405 revolve?c1425 contemplairec1525 brood1589 recollect1626 the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)] i-thenchec897 showeOE i-mune971 thinkOE overthinkOE takec1175 umbethinkc1175 waltc1200 bethinkc1220 wend?c1225 weighc1380 delivera1382 peisea1382 considerc1385 musec1390 to look over ——a1393 advise?c1400 debatec1400 roll?c1400 revert?a1425 advertc1425 deliberc1425 movec1425 musec1425 revolvec1425 contemplec1429 overseec1440 to think overc1440 perpend1447 roil1447 pondera1450 to eat inc1450 involvec1470 ponderate?a1475 reputec1475 counterpoise1477 poisea1483 traversec1487 umbecast1487 digest1488 undercast1489 overhalec1500 rumble1519 volve?1520 compassa1522 recount1526 trutinate1528 cast1530 expend1531 ruminate1533 concoct1534 contemplate1538 deliberate1540 revolute1553 chawa1558 to turn over1568 cud1569 cogitate1570 huik1570 chew1579 meditatec1580 discourse1581 speculate1599 theorize1599 scance1603 verse1614 pensitate1623 agitate1629 spell1633 view1637 study1659 designa1676 introspect1683 troll1685 balance1692 to figure on or upon1837 reflect1862 mull1873 to mull over1874 scour1882 mill1905 OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xxxvii. 316 Gif hit byð wel asmead & oferþoht. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 17 Whan I haue wel ouerthought these saide thinges I answere yow. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xix. 418 Yf ye overthynke wel al, ye shall fynde that [etc.]. 1903 J. Payne Vigil & Vision 115 No more the page accomplished I re-read, The script of done and undone, stress and need, Nor overthink the wrongs endured erewhen. †2. transitive. To think too highly of; to overestimate. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > misjudge [verb (transitive)] > over-estimate or overvalue to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)c1395 to make of (also on)c1449 to make fair weather of1537 over-reckon1537 overmind1571 overween1588 overprize?1589 overcount1593 overvalue1597 overrate1599 wondernize1599 overhold1609 over-cess1611 overweight1613 overthinka1618 over-title1620 overcast1622 overmeasure1625 over-sum1628 overesteema1639 overproportion1642 outbid1688 overcharge1711 overestimate1797 overreach1822 overplay1835 maximize1866 maximate1881 out-reckon1898 fetishize1934 a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 938 What man, like Iob, himselfe so over-thinks? 1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) xxvi. 398 You may over-think and over-praise Paradise. 3. transitive and intransitive. To consider or ponder too hard or too seriously; to think too much about. Also reflexive: †to exhaust oneself with too much thinking (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (reflexive)] > in specific ways overrun1533 overthink1628 overmusea1652 over-dance1653 overtravel1654 forfight1661 overwalk1662 over-read1668 overwrite1752 overpreach1865 outwrite1883 overshoot1883 to run out1892 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. 103 So long the solitary nights did last, That I had leasure my accounts to cast; And think upon, and over-think those things, Which darknesse, lonelinesse, and sorrow brings. a1652 R. Brome City Wit iii. iv. sig. D6, in Five New Playes (1653) Have you not over-mus'd, or over-thought your selfe? 1718 R. Traill Stedfast Adherence Profession of Faith xviii. 341 I..will advise you accordingly to confine your thoughts to Scripture phrase, about these things, wherein we may over do, and over think, and think amiss. 1857 Edinb. Ess. 1856 314 It cannot help us, if we overthink ourselves and die before our time. 1867 Ladies' Repository July 414/2 We over-think, over-plan, over-work, over-drive, and, like the wicked, we do not live half our days. 1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 May (Sports section) d1 He overthinks on occasions, but he understands the ways of course management. 1987 Telegraph (Brisbane) 8 July 24/2 Scorpio... There is now a tendency to over-think and in the process over-dramatise situations. 2002 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 12 July 10 I could have overthought it and been too careful, but I took a leap. Derivatives ˌoverˈthinking adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > [noun] > excessive thinking overthinking1703 overthought1839 1703 Poems on Affairs of State II. 211 A Grave Eye, and an Overthinking Face Seem to distinguish him from all his Race. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. iii. 301 It was never their over-thinking that oppress'd them. a1896 W. Morris Story of Beowulf xxvi, in Coll. Wks. (1910–11) X. 232 Thou best of all men, and choose thee the better, The redes everlasting; to o'erthinking turn not, O mighty of champions! 1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Dec. 25/2 The problem thumb was healed, and the problem of overthinking was solved. 1996 Kindred Spirit Summer 90/2 (advt.) This is a..full guide to the various attributes of individual oils, as well as strategies for healing specific difficulties—like overthinking and worry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † overthinkv.² Forms: see over- prefix and think v.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, think v.¹ Etymology: < over- prefix + think v.¹ Compare earlier ofthink v. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To displease, grieve, vex; to cause regret or repentance to; = ofthink v. Frequently impersonal as me overthinketh or with non-referential it as subject. Cf. forthink v. 1, 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [verb (intransitive)] > feel remorse ofthinkOE reusieOE overthinkc1175 (it) forthinks (me, him, etc.)a1300 forthinkc1380 ruea1400 remordc1450 to rue the day (also hour)c1461 repoin1523 remorse1530 the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > be or become displeased [verb (intransitive)] > displease loathec893 overthinkc1175 displeasec1400 to stick in the throat (also craw, gizzard, stomach, etc.)c1536 unsavoura1547 distastea1618 disrelish1631 to give (also cause, etc.) offence to1712 spoil sport1869 to get in bad1902 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > be repentant or contrite [verb (intransitive)] rueOE i-rewOE ofthinkOE again-chareOE reusieOE overthinkc1175 beetc1200 it athinks me1250 to do (also make, etc.) (one's) penancea1300 (it) forthinks (me, him, etc.)a1300 repentc1300 forthinkc1380 remordc1450 repoin1523 remorse1530 to take the rue1789 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8920 Ta þeȝȝ misstenn þeȝȝre child & itt hemm offerrþuhhte. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 19596 Iohan bapptisste wisste itt wel. & itt himm oferrþuhhte. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) 2732 If schoe did it, hir ouerthoght. a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 130 (MED) ‘Me ouyr-thynkyth þat I met wyth þe, for me semyth þat þu seyst ryth good wordys.’ Than seyd sche vn-to hym, ‘Ser, ouyrthynkyth ne repentith ȝow not þat ȝe met wyth me.’ a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 2350 Hure ouer-þoughte [?a1400 Petyt forþouht] mykel more Þe wraþthe of hure fader þe kyng. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxvii^v I se wel (and that me ouerthynketh) that wytte in the fayleth. 2. a. intransitive. To feel regret; to be sorry. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [verb (intransitive)] sorroweOE aruec1000 ruea1400 overthinka1450 regretc1450 to rue the day (also hour)c1461 fret1551 to cry over spilt milk (or water)1738 a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 5639 Thanne ouerthowhte the kyng ful sore..of the dewkys deth. a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 1721 (MED) Nou it is to late to ouer-think; As I haue brew, so most I drink. b. transitive. To regret; to repent of. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [verb (transitive)] forthink?a1250 ruea1300 remordc1400 sorrow?a1425 forruec1425 overthinkc1450 regreta1500 deplore1567 grieve1597 unwish1629 repent1631 lament1794 c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) v. 951 Thei shul it ouere-thynke If it be proued thei ȝoue hir eyther mete or drynke. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Cambr.) (1879) 332 (MED) Herith my counceill, & ye shull not ouerþink [a1500 BL Add. forthynke] it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.¹OEv.²c1175
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overthinkv.1

Derivatives

† overthinkv.2

overthinkv.¹

† overthinkv.²