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Etymology

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hyper- +‎ qualified

Adjective

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hyperqualified (comparative more hyperqualified, superlative most hyperqualified)

  1. Very highly qualified.
    • 2007 October 19, Adam Nossiter, “An Improbable Favorite Emerges in Cajun Country”, in New York Times[1]:
      For months, the congressman has cultivated the rural areas where he lost in 2003, “witnessing” in remote Pentecostal churches, neutralizing his image of being hyperqualified — head of the state health department at 24, head of the university system at 28 and under secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services at 30 under President Bush — that did not help him the last time.