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What is the adjective for overcompensations?

What's the adjective for overcompensations? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb overcompensate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

overcompensatory
  1. Tending to overcompensate; providing excessive compensation.
  2. Examples:
    1. “While some plants from grassland or desert habitats undergo overcompensatory growth in response to defoliation, it is unlikely that perennial forest herbs can do so.”
      “But the hidden costs of our overcompensatory hypermacho are worse, far worse, than a few politicians slimed by Reich-wing pundits or dirty-tricks campaigns.”
overcompensated
overcompensating
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