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overstimulated

adjective, verb

overstimulated is an adjective meaning “Excessively stimulated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-V-E-R-S-T-I-M-U-L-A-T-E-D, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does overstimulated mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Excessively stimulated

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of overstimulate (a form of overstimulate)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of overstimulated

  • more overstimulated comparative
  • most overstimulated superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is overstimulated?

Overstimulated appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Overstimulated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Germanüberstimuliert

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.