noun
Meaning 1
An excessive estimate or rate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
overrate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪt/
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verb
Meaning 2
To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: overflatter, overpraise, apple-polish, bootlick, bow and scrape, brownnose, butter up, dickride, duchess, fawn, fawn over, fellate, flannel, honey around, honey up, kiss someone's ass, kiss someone's ring, kiss up, kowtow, lick someone's ass, lick someone's balls, overrate, suck up, toady
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To overstate or overestimate in amount, extent, degree, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: overapproximate, overreckon, overestimate, overhold, overrate, overstate, overthink
Antonyms: understate, misunderestimate, sell short, underapproximate, underestimate, underguess, underjudge, underrate, underreckon
verb
Meaning 4
make too high an estimate of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He overestimated his own powers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: overestimate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: misjudge
Narrower terms: overcapitalize, overcapitalise
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English rate English overrate From over- + rate.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: надценявам (nadcenjavam) — to esteem too highly
- Catalan: sobrevalorar — to esteem too highly
- Chinese Mandarin: 高估 (gāogū) — to esteem too highly
- Dutch: overschatten — to esteem too highly
- Finnish: yliarvostaa — to esteem too highly
- French: surévaluer — to esteem too highly
- French: surestimer — to esteem too highly
- French: surfaire — to esteem too highly
- French: surcoter — to esteem too highly
- German: überbewerten — to esteem too highly
- Greek: υπερτιμώ (ypertimó) — to esteem too highly
- Greek: υπερεκτιμώ (yperektimó) — to esteem too highly
- Icelandic: ofmeta — to esteem too highly
- Japanese: 過大評価する (kadaihyōka suru) — to esteem too highly
- Japanese: 買い被る (kaikaburu) — to esteem too highly
- Norwegian: overvurdere — to esteem too highly
- Portuguese: sobrestimar — to esteem too highly
- Portuguese: superestimar — to esteem too highly
- Portuguese: supervalorizar — to esteem too highly
- Russian: переоце́нивать (pereocénivatʹ) — to esteem too highly
- Russian: переоцени́ть (pereocenítʹ) — to esteem too highly
- Spanish: sobrevalorar — to esteem too highly
- Spanish: sobreestimar — to esteem too highly
- Turkish: abartmak — to esteem too highly