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hypervalued

hypervalued is the simple past and past participle of hypervalue.

Meaning of hypervalue

Verb

hypervalue (third-person singular simple present hypervalues, present participle hypervaluing, simple past and past participle hypervalued)

  1. To value extremely highly or closely.
    • To the missionaries other ways of reasoning were perceived as contending against their long established and hypervalued truth.1991, Identity, Rationality, and the Post-colonial Subject, Columbia University, Institute of African Studies
  2. To assign a higher value than is necessary or appropriate; to overvalue.
    • There are many examples where men's attempts to support women are hypervalued. Such disproportionate rewards for being a 'good man' can shore up patriarchal social structures instead of undermining or dismantling them.2019, Working Across Difference, Macmillan Education UK, →ISBN, page 113

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Questions about hypervalued

What is hypervalued the simple past and past participle of?
Hypervalued is the simple past and past participle of hypervalue.

Words near hypervalued in the dictionary

  1. hypervalinaemia
  2. hypervalinemia
  3. hypervaluation
  4. hypervaluations
  5. hypervalue
  6. hypervalued
  7. hypervalues
  8. hypervaluing
  9. hypervariability
  10. hypervariable
  11. hypervariables

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