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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overactive
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an overactive/fevered imagination (=a mind that imagines strange things that are not real)
▪ These stories are the product of an overactive imagination.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
imagination
▪ But is there any real evidence that such zodiacs are anything more than the product of an overactive imagination?
▪ Are they products of an overactive imagination, or the just aftermath of a plate full of funny mushrooms?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But is there any real evidence that such zodiacs are anything more than the product of an overactive imagination?
▪ Other medical conditions, such as an overactive thyroid gland, occasionally cause similar symptoms.
▪ She was very overactive and had not slept for three nights.
▪ The mussels were so enormous I suspected they had some kind of overactive glandular condition.
▪ The reverse happens in animals that need to reduce heat due to an overactive metabolism.
▪ They may be sleepless from an overactive mind and sensitivity to slight noises which disturb them.
▪ When a surgeon destroys overactive cells in the globus pallidum, he restores balance to the system, said Grossman.
Wiktionary
overactive

a. Excessively active.

WordNet
overactive

adj. more active than normal; "a hyperactive child" [syn: hyperactive]

Usage examples of "overactive".

This thing with our dads has got to me more than I thought and my mum always said I had an overactive imagination.

That and an overactive imagination and the fact that you dont eat enough to keep my wifes canary bird alive.

Giant ants and killer bees as big as a man were also possibilities Bill considered, cursing his overactive imagination and trembling with fear, eyes darting every which way, nostrils flared.

She was looking at a star chart that might have been drawn by an artist with an overactive imagination and a bent for the depressing.

But he scowled a great deal, he had an overactive trigger finger, and he was much feared in and around Machine-Gun City.