overrate
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overrate
- /ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪt/
verb overrates · overrating · overrated · over-rate
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To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
Similar: overflatter, overpraise, apple-polish, bootlick, bow and scrape, brown-nose, butter up, dickride, duchess, fawn, fawn over, fellate
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To overstate or overestimate in amount, extent, degree, etc.
The vicissitudes of the weather may be responsible for more suffering among the lower animals than in the case of man, but we who live in England are perhaps inclined to overrate the amount of inconvenience occasioned to the world at large by this cause.
Similar: overapproximate, overreckon, overestimate, overhold, overrate, overstate, overthink · Opposite: understate, misunderestimate, sell short, underapproximate, underestimate, underguess, underjudge, underrate, underreckon
noun overrates · over-rate
- An excessive estimate or rate.
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verb to esteem too highly
| Español | sobrevalorar, sobreestimar |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 過大評価する kadaihyōka suru, 買い被る kaikaburu |
| 中文 | 高估 gāogū |
| Português | sobrestimar, superestimar, supervalorizar |
| Français | surévaluer, surestimer, surfaire, surcoter |
| Deutsch | überbewerten |
| Ελληνικά | υπερτιμώ ypertimó, υπερεκτιμώ yperektimó |
| Русский | переоце́нивать pereocénivatʹ, переоцени́ть pereocenítʹ |
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title = {overrate},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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