overorganize

verb

over·​or·​ga·​nize ˌō-vər-ˈȯr-gə-ˌnīz 

overorganized; overorganizing

transitive + intransitive

: to organize (something or someone) to an unnecessary degree

It was bad enough when our parents tried to overorganize and overstructure our lives; we weren't about to do it ourselves.

—William Schwarz

Don't overorganize kids.

—David Walsh

When we overorganize our spaces, we don't have time to maintain the systems we create and the whole apparatus crashes.

—Robert J. Morgan

When you feel like you are doing three steps when you could be doing just one, you are overorganizing …

—Lanna Nakone

overorganized

ˌō-vər-ˈȯr-gə-ˌnīzd 

adjective

an overorganized person/life/office

Word History

First Known Use

1852, in the meaning defined above