Overrate
[əʊvə'reɪt] or [,ovɚ'ret]
Definition
(v. t.) To rate or value too highly.
(n.) An excessive rate.
Checked by Andrew
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Overestimate, overvalue, make too much of.
Typist: Moira
Definition
v.t. to rate or value too high.—n. O′verrate an excessive estimate or rate.
Editor: Mamie
Examples
- The main body of the building is of the time of that highly-overrated woman, Queen Elizabeth. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But the degree of adaptation of species to the climates under which they live is often overrated. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Rose had by no means overrated the measure of the good doctor's wrath. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Edited by Gertrude