Overestimate

Quick meaning: Overestimate is a verb meaning To judge or calculate too highly.

Meaning

To judge or calculate too highly.

More Meanings

1. An estimate that is too high.

Example Sentences

I overestimated the number of attendees, and bought far too much food for the party.

The employment projection for the metropolitan area for 1985 was an overestimate by about 12 percent.

One must be especially careful when using Google to determine frequency as there is a very real risk of fantastically overestimating the frequency and subsequent importance of a term.

Nevertheless, the role played by vertical transport (in particular, by biosedimentation) in self-purification of seas and oceans from chlorinated hydrocarbons must not be overestimated.

Word Forms

• overestimates
• overestimating
• overestimated

Synonyms for overestimate

Depending on context, synonyms include overapproximate, overhold, overrate, overreckon, overstate, overthink.

Antonyms for overestimate

Common opposites include underestimate, misunderestimate, underapproximate, underguess, underjudge, underrate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overestimation, overrate, overvalue, overvaluation, overappraisal, overrating.

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