Home › Words › O › overexpectoverexpectoverexpect means to expect too much.EtymologyFrom over- + expect.verbTo expect too much.e.g.“If you overexpect from a tool, you are likely to forget the part that you have to play to make it work.” — 2006, Doc Childre, Deborah Rozman, Transforming Anxiety, page 146:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).