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overgenerating

overgenerating is the present participle and gerund of overgenerate.

Meaning of overgenerate

Verb

overgenerate (third-person singular simple present overgenerates, present participle overgenerating, simple past and past participle overgenerated)

  1. (natural language processing) To assign meaning to incorrect sentences.
    • If you know that all the text you wish to analyse is correct, a set of rules that overgenerate a grammar would be sufficient.
    Antonyms:
    undergenerate

Questions about overgenerating

What is overgenerating the present participle and gerund of?
Overgenerating is the present participle and gerund of overgenerate.

Words near overgenerating in the dictionary

  1. overgeneralizing
  2. overgenerally
  3. overgenerate
  4. overgenerated
  5. overgenerates
  6. overgenerating
  7. overgeneration
  8. overgenerosity
  9. overgenerous
  10. overgenerously
  11. overgenial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overgenerating (page history and authors); overgenerate (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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