What does overrate mean?
Overrate means To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due..
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/ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪt/ · verb
To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due..
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.
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 explaining or rationalizing their illness.
Use overrate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Overrate means To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due..
Common synonyms include overflatter, overpraise, apple-polish, bootlick.
Possible antonyms include understate, misunderestimate, sell short, underapproximate.
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.
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