He tended to overrate himself.
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Overrate
//ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪt//
Synonyms for "overrate" (36 found)
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Related words (18)
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Translations
24 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- надценявам verb (to esteem too highly)
Catalan
1 entries- sobrevalorar verb (to esteem too highly)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 高估 verb (to esteem too highly)
Dutch
1 entries- overschatten verb (to esteem too highly)
Finnish
1 entries- yliarvostaa verb (to esteem too highly)
French
4 entries- surcoter verb (to esteem too highly)
- surestimer verb (to esteem too highly)
- surfaire verb (to esteem too highly)
- surévaluer verb (to esteem too highly)
German
1 entries- überbewerten verb (to esteem too highly)
Greek
2 entries- υπερεκτιμώ verb (to esteem too highly)
- υπερτιμώ verb (to esteem too highly)
Icelandic
1 entries- ofmeta verb (to esteem too highly)
Japanese
2 entries- 買い被る verb (to esteem too highly)
- 過大評価する verb (to esteem too highly)
Norwegian
1 entries- overvurdere verb (to esteem too highly)
Portuguese
3 entries- sobrestimar verb (to esteem too highly)
- superestimar verb (to esteem too highly)
- supervalorizar verb (to esteem too highly)
Russian
2 entries- переоце́нивать verb (to esteem too highly)
- переоцени́ть verb (to esteem too highly)
Spanish
2 entries- sobreestimar verb (to esteem too highly)
- sobrevalorar verb (to esteem too highly)
Turkish
1 entries- abartmak verb (to esteem too highly)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Practice is just as important as theory, but we tend to overrate the latter and overlook the former.
Source: tatoeba (10816698)
In an archival interview, he was careful not to overrate his success or appear arrogant.
Source: tatoeba (12095760)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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