What is another word for overestimate?
Synonyms for overestimate
ˌoʊ vərˈɛs təˌmeɪt; ˈoʊ vərˈɛs tə mɪtover·es·ti·mate
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Wiktionary
overestimateverb
to judge too highly
Experts overestimate the level of harm of cigarettes.
Antonyms:
underestimate
Princeton's WordNet
overestimate, overestimation, overvaluation, overappraisalnoun
an appraisal that is too high
Synonyms:
overappraisal, overreckoning, overvaluation, overrating, overestimationAntonyms:
underrate, undervalue, underestimateoverestimate, overestimation, overrating, overreckoningverb
a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high
Synonyms:
overappraisal, overreckoning, overvaluation, overrating, overestimationAntonyms:
underestimate, undervalue, underrateoverestimate, overrateverb
make too high an estimate of
"He overestimated his own powers"
Antonyms:
underrate, undervalue, underestimateovervalue, overestimateverb
assign too high a value to
"You are overestimating the value of your old car"
Antonyms:
underrate, underestimate, undervalue
Dictionary of English Synonymes
overestimateverb
Synonyms:
overvalue, overprize, overrate, make too much of
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "overestimate":
overstate, overestimation, overstatement, over-estimate, overrate, exaggerate, overemphasize, overestimated, underestimate
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#178616 | overvaluation | |
#185425 | overemphasize | |
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#302603 | overrate |
How to use overestimate in a sentence?
There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
This discovery is hard to overestimate.
Neither intervention had a significant effect on intention to vaccinate, and we probably overestimate how likely messaging is to change people minds about vaccines.
You get on a plane and you think you are going to crash because you greatly overestimate the number of planes that actually crash.
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- sobreestimarCatalan, Valencian
- přecenitCzech
- overvurdereDanish
- überschätzenGerman
- sobrestimarSpanish
- yliarvioidaFinnish
- surestimerFrench
- sobreestimarGalician
- túlbecsülHungarian
- menaksir terlalu tinggiIndonesian
- 過大評価Japanese
- overvurdereNorwegian
- overschattenDutch
- overvurdereNorwegian Nynorsk
- sobrestimar, sobre-estimar, superestimarPortuguese
- переоценить, переоцениватьRussian
- överskattaSwedish
- ఎక్కువ అంచనా వేయుTelugu
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