Some people have a tendency to get a bit excited and get ahead of themselves at times. They find themselves becoming a little more enthusiastic than people can handle, and this can be simply because they are overwhelmed with emotion. Here is how overzealous you can be, based on your personality type.

What is an overzealous person?

: too zealous : having or showing too much zeal : excessively eager, enthusiastic, or fervent overzealous parents overzealous workers … another version of the overzealous monitoring that has produced kids who leave for college without ever having crossed the street by themselves.—

Is overzealous positive or negative?

Zealous is the adjective for the noun zeal, "eager partisanship"; the latter has a long e, but zealous has a short one: ZEL-uhs. It can have a slightly negative connotation, and people are sometimes described as overzealous, meaning they try too hard.