I'm a risk-taker, unlike most accountants who tend to be cautious and often overcareful.
overcareful in American English
(ˈouvərˈkɛərfəl)
adjective
excessively or unduly careful
Derived forms
overcarefully
adverb
overcarefulness
noun
Word origin
[1585–95; over- + careful]This word is first recorded in the period 1585–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: competence, corridor, filament, parallax, scuffover- is a prefixal use of over, occurring in various senses in compounds (overboard; overcoat; overhang; overlap; overlord; overrun; overthrow), and especially employed, with the sense of “over the limit,” “to excess,” “toomuch,” “too,” to form verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and nouns (overact; overcapitalize; overcrowd; overfull; overmuch; oversupply; overweight), and many others, mostly self-explanatory: a hyphen, which is commonly absent fromold or well-established formations, is sometimes used in new coinages or in any wordswhose component parts it may be desirable to set off distinctly