overrate
Collocations
4ADJ.
careful, latter
VERB + OVERRATE
inclined, tend, tended
OVERRATE + NOUN
amount, himself, success
ADV.
perhaps
Definitions
verb
To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
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.
Vance and Martin note another problem with retrospective analysis of sexual patterns in a case in which a person has been diagnosed with AIDS or ARC. There may be a tendency for diagnosed people to overrate their sexual encounters in the belief that promiscuity is the cause of AIDS, thereby explaining or rationalizing their illness.
noun
An excessive estimate or rate.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
verb — make too high an estimate of
Antonyms
- underestimate
- underrate
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
5The 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 inconve
WiktionaryVance and Martin note another problem with retrospective analysis of sexual patterns in a case in which a person has been diagnosed with AIDS or ARC. There may be a tendency for diagnosed people to ov
WiktionaryHe tended to overrate himself.
Tatoeba · #10529636Practice is just as important as theory, but we tend to overrate the latter and overlook the former.
Tatoeba · #10816698In an archival interview, he was careful not to overrate his success or appear arrogant.
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