Overjudge

Quick meaning: Overjudge is a verb meaning (transitive) To judge excessively or too harshly.

Meaning

(transitive) To judge excessively or too harshly.

More Meanings

1. A supreme or superior judge.

Example Sentences

The most ordinary temptation of the cultivated mind is to desire to criticize too much, to overjudge, to criticize even that of which he knows nothing.

People with BPD are sometimes too interpersonally sensitive, and they overjudge situations, such as feeling that no one loves them or that people are talking about them.

It seems incongruous for the plaintiff to claim that the defendant should overjudge him in a matter in which he assumed to judge and to do all that he required or supposed necessary to be done in the premises, and that the defendant should be responsible for the inadequacy of what the plaintiff adjudged and did.

But without importing into the case any extravagant conclusions, no doubt need be entertained that the overjudge at Strassburg wielded an immense influence; although, looking at the whole spirit of the Ordinances before us, it is hardly conceivable that his judicial decisions were promulgated on his own sole and undivided authority.

Word Forms

• overjudges
• overjudging
• overjudged

Antonyms for overjudge

Common opposites include underjudge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overestimate, overevaluate, overhold, overassess, overhandle, overadjust.

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