Overrate

//ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪt// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An excessive estimate or rate.
Verb
  1. 1
    To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
  2. 2
    make too high an estimate of wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

Synonyms

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overestimateapple-polishbootlickbow and scrapebrownnosebutter up

Example

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"Practice is just as important as theory, but we tend to overrate the latter and overlook the former."

Etymology

From over- + rate.

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