overannotate

To add too many annotations.

Verb

  1. To add too many annotations.
    • In most instances, a majority of the notes will be focused here, since one can never overannotate in the area of fundamental meaning. - 1992, Jeffrey P. Mass, Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History, →ISBN, page...
    • Care must be taken not to overannotate. - 2008, Angela Szczepaniak, Unisex love poems, page 22:
    • I do tell them that if they overannotate they will kill the book, and that if they underannotate they will not get to levels of deeper reading. - 2015, Kelly Gallagher, In the Best Interest of Students, →ISBN:

Origin

From over- + annotate.

Forms

overannotates overannotating overannotated