overreact
verbHow many syllables in overreact?
There are 4 syllables in the word overreact.How to pronounce overreact:
Definition of overreact:
- overreact (verb):
- show an exaggerated response to something.
- to react more strongly or forcefully than is necessary
- to react to something too strongly to respond to something with too strong an emotion or with unnecessary or excessive action
Synonyms for overreact:
blow things out of all proportion
get things out of proportion
get upset over nothing
go over the top
make a mountain out of a molehill
react
react disproportionately
Antonyms for overreact:
be cool
be impassive
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- syllabary
- mischievousness
- convalescing
- bilabial
- inexpensive
- connubial
- extirpation
- practically
- unreadable
- underwhelming
- presumably
- democracy
- omnipresent
- irascible
- inhabitant
- innocuous
- adulation
- tergiversate
- nonsensical
- heretical
- intricacy
- misadventured
- benevolent
- disyllabic
- delicacy
- expectantly
- courageousness
- accompanied
- austerity
- silhouetted
- unbearably
- conceivably
- bludgeoning
- abominate
- brilliantly
- resignedly
- pacifying
- alphabetic
- technically
- successively
- distinctively
- ailurophile
- desperately
- proliferate
- interruption
- ultimately
- situated
- infinitude
- primarily
- disassemble
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