overrates

Verb

overrate (third-person singular simple present overrates, present participle overrating, simple past and past participle overrated)

1. 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

2. 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

   Synonyms:

   overapproximate, overreckon, overestimate, overhold, overstate, overthink

   Antonyms:

   understate, misunderestimate, sell short, underapproximate, underestimate, underguess, underjudge, underrate, underreckon

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