What does overstate mean?
Overstate means (transitive) To state or claim too much..
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/ˌəʊ.vəˈsteɪt/ · verb
(transitive) To state or claim too much..
I think it is overstating matters to say that an hour online is spending all night on the computer.
He was suggested not to overstate at the interview.
In a closely reasoned article in The Guardian, Mr. D. L. Munby, Oxford University's Reader in the Economics and Organisation of Transport, has taken Dr. Beeching to task for overstating his case for withdrawing stopping train services as money-losers.
Career diplomat Conrad Tribble said on Twitter that multiculturalism “is one of our greatest strengths as a country, and I go to that well often as an American diplomat. It’s hard to overstate the global soft power impact of America’s cultural diversity.”
A Nobel prize-winning US biologist, who has been widely quoted describing a “smoking gun” to support the thesis that Covid-19 was genetically modified and escaped from a Wuhan lab, has said he overstated the case.
Use overstate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Overstate means (transitive) To state or claim too much..
Common synonyms include overapproximate, overreckon, overestimate, overhold.
Possible antonyms include underestimate, understate, misunderestimate, sell short.
I think it is overstating matters to say that an hour online is spending all night on the computer.
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