Overstate

Quick meaning: Overstate is a verb meaning (transitive) To state or claim too much.

Meaning

(transitive) To state or claim too much.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To exaggerate; to state or claim to a greater degree than reality.

Example Sentences

He was suggested not to overstate at the interview.

I think it is overstating matters to say that an hour online is spending all night on the computer.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• overstates
• overstating
• overstated

Synonyms for overstate

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

Antonyms for overstate

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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exaggerate, hyperbolize, overdraw, magnify, amplify, overemphasize.

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