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overactive
adjective
o‧ver‧ac‧tive
too active, in a way that produces a bad result
[≠
underactive
]
:
an overactive thyroid gland
Such fears are nothing more than the product of an
overactive imagination
.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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