overrate

Speech parts

1. overrate - Noun

2. overrate - Verb

Meaning

To rate or value too highly.

An excessive rate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

overestimate exceed exaggerate inflate underestimate glorify misunderstand magnify overstate embellish overdo misjudge misconstrue miscalculate underrate
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Antonyms

minify minimize diminish lessen despise underestimate
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Hypernyms

misjudge

Hyponyms

overcapitalize overcapitalise

Derivatives

overrated overrating

Examples

One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans. Kenneth Clark

I think I can hardly overrate the malignity of the principles of Protestant ascendancy, as they affect Ireland; or of Indianism, as they affect these countries, and as they affect Asia; or of Jacobinism, as they affect all Europe, and the state of human society itself. The last is the greatest evil. Edmund Burke

To come to this war: despite the known disposition of the actors in a struggle to overrate its importance, and when it is over to return to their admiration of earlier events, yet an examination of the facts will show that it was much greater than the wars which preceded it. Thucydides

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes. Chuck Eddy

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me. Thomas Hardy

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Close letter words and terms

overrash overrashly overrashness overrated overratedly overratedness