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Overrate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To overestimate the merits of; rate too highly.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To rate or value too highly; to overestimate.

n. An excessive rate.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To rate or estimate too highly.

n. An excessive estimate or rate.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make too high an estimate of

Word Usage

"Indeed, as Miriam herself concedes, "from the POV of literary history, it's quite possible to 'overrate' a novel's importance (the extent to which it attracted imitators, was genre-changing or - originating, etc.) by pointing to its aesthetic superiority.""

Antonym

underrate undervalue

Verb Form

overrated overrates overrating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

misjudge

Hyponym

overcapitalise overcapitalize

Form

overrated overrating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

overestimate overprize overvalue

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Ate Cate Est Fate Haight