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单词 over-informed
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over-informedadj.

Brit. /ˌəʊv(ə)rɪnˈfɔːmd/, U.S. /ˈˌoʊvərənˈfɔrmd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over-inform v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < over-inform v. + -ed suffix1.
That has been over-informed; esp. having too much knowledge of a particular subject or situation; having received too much information.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > [adjective] > possessing knowledge, informed > excessively
over-informed1884
1884 Spectator 31 May 708/2 That over-informed man on the Times who has an immovable conviction that Englishmen know where Hungarian towns are, and are accustomed to talk of them even when their names have no vowels.
1899 Daily News 5 July 9/3 A rest..for over-strained nerves, over-worked brains, and over-informed minds.
1948 Q. Rev. Biol. 23 65/1 Challenge the over-informed student to point out to the instructor that the word dissect is not derived from the word to separate or even to demonstrate but comes from a Latin verb meaning ‘to cut off’.
2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 July b1 My real problem is not anger at all, but rather the far less satisfying contemporary curse of over-informed uncertainty.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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