Search for crossword answers and clues
Finished almost first in state - one's exceptionally successful
Answer for the clue "Finished almost first in state - one's exceptionally successful ", 12 letters:
overachiever
Alternative clues for the word overachiever
Word definitions for overachiever in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who overachieves; one who has too much success.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
overachiever \overachiever\ n. a student who attains higher standards than expected based on the IQ score.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated
Usage examples of overachiever.
The daughter of a dentist, Williams, who was briefly married to a football star back home, had always been an overachiever until moving to New York in 1987 to pursue an acting career.
Maybe being an inspiration for you is enough for an overachiever like me.
He was an overachiever, in a Service where uniformity was prized above all.
To Alex, who was an overachiever by choice as well as by nature, sleep was a detestable form of slavery, insidious.
No, they were simply white-collar overachievers who worked hard and played harder.
He went several steps further - scratch a hacker, find an overachiever - by adding another dozen small cities to what he called 'the stat-pool' and presenting me with a computer-generated bar graph where Derry slicks out like a sore thumb.