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overattributed

overattributed is the simple past and past participle of overattribute.

Meaning of overattribute

Verb

overattribute (third-person singular simple present overattributes, present participle overattributing, simple past and past participle overattributed)

  1. (transitive) To attribute too much.
    • “At such times, executives can overattribute their company’s strong performance to their own actions and abilities, rather than to the buoyant economy,” he said.2007 June 9, Paul B. Brown, “In Corporations They Don’t Trust”, in New York Times
    Antonyms:
    underattribute

Questions about overattributed

What is overattributed the simple past and past participle of?
Overattributed is the simple past and past participle of overattribute.

Words near overattributed in the dictionary

  1. overattentive
  2. overattentively
  3. overattentiveness
  4. overattenuated
  5. overattribute
  6. overattributed
  7. overattributes
  8. overattributing
  9. overattribution
  10. overattributions
  11. overauthor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overattributed (page history and authors); overattribute (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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