Definition of "overcareful" [o•ver•care•ful]

• Excessively careful. (adjective)

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• "Because they successfully invite revision after revision by overcareful supervisors and clients."
• ""My dear, dear anxious friend," -- said she, in mental soliloquy, while walking downstairs from her own room, "always overcareful for every body's comfort but your own; I see you now in all your little fidgets, going again and again into his room, to be sure that all is right.""
• "Even then, this is an overcareful precaution rather than a necessity."