overrate
/ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪt/
overrate verb: to esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
Verb
overrate (third-person singular simple present overrates, present participle overrating, simple past and past participle overrated)
- To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
- Synonyms:
- overflatter, overpraise, apple-polish, bootlick, bow and scrape, brownnose, butter up, dickride, duchess, fawn
- 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.1886 August, Briggs Carlill, “Are Animals Happy?”, in The Nineteenth Century
- Vance and Martin note another problem with retrospective analysis of sexual patterns in a case in which a person has been diagnosed with AIDS or ARC. There may be a tendency for diagnosed people to overrate their sexual encounters in the belief that promiscuity is the cause of AIDS, thereby...1985 February 9, Cindy Patton, “Heterosexual AIDS Panic: A Queer Paradigm”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 29, page 3
- Synonyms:
- overapproximate, overreckon, overestimate, overhold, overstate, overthink
Noun
overrate (plural overrates)
overrate meaning in Malayalam and Kannada
overrate in Malayalam
- overvalue, think too much of, overestimate
- കണക്കിലേറെ മതിക്കുക, അതിമൂല്യം നിർദ്ദേശിക്കുക, അധികം വിലനിശ്ചയിക്കുക, അതിശയമൂല്യനിരൂപണം നടത്തുക, അമിതമായ നിരക്കിടുക, അർഹിക്കാത്ത സ്ഥാനം നൽകുക
overrate in Kannada
- ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಬೆಲೆಹೇಳು, ಮಿತಿಮೀರಿದ ಬೆಲೆಕಟ್ಟು, ಅಧಿಕದರ ಹಾಕು, ಅತಿಪ್ರಾಮುಖ್ಯತೆ ಕೊಡು, ಅತಿಯಾಗಿ ಗೌರವಿಸು, ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಬೆಲೆಕಟ್ಟು
Synonyms of overrate
- overflatter
- overpraise
- apple-polish
- bootlick
- bow and scrape
- brownnose
- butter up
- dickride
- duchess
- fawn
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Antonyms
Forms of overrate
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | overrates |
| present participle | overrating |
| past participle | overrated |
| past | overrated |
| alternative form | over-rate |
| Noun | |
| plural | overrates |
Origin of overrate
From over- + rate.
Words formed from overrate
Questions about overrate
- What does overrate mean?
- Overrate means to esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
- What is overrate in Malayalam?
- Overrate in Malayalam is കണക്കിലേറെ മതിക്കുക, അതിമൂല്യം നിർദ്ദേശിക്കുക, അധികം വിലനിശ്ചയിക്കുക. See Overrate meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is overrate?
- Overrate can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce overrate?
- Overrate is pronounced /ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪt/.
- What is the past tense of overrate?
- The past tense of overrate is overrated.
Words near overrate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: overrate (page history and authors); overrate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); overrate (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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