What is another word for overestimating?

Pronunciation: [ˌə͡ʊvəɹˈɛstɪmˌe͡ɪtɪŋ] (IPA)

Overestimating can be defined as an act of overrating or overvaluing something or someone beyond their actual worth or value. When we overestimate, we tend to exaggerate the importance or significance of something or someone. Synonyms for overestimating can include the words overrating, overoptimistic, overvaluing, overemphasizing, overpraising, overestimation, overestimation, overestimation, overestimation, and overweening. In other words, these words all imply that we have taken a particular assessment too far and have provided an inflated view of its worth. To avoid overestimating, it's essential to be realistic and objective in our assessments and evaluations.

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What are the hypernyms for Overestimating?

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What are the opposite words for overestimating?

Overestimating is the act of thinking something is greater or more important than it really is. Antonyms for this word could include underestimating, undervaluing, or downplaying. Underestimating means to think something is less important, valuable or capable than it actually is. Undervaluing means to not recognize the true worth, importance, or significance of something. While downplaying means to make something seem less important or significant than it really is. It is important to avoid overestimating and to use these antonyms while making judgments, evaluations or assessments of any situation, person or thing.

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Usage examples for Overestimating

There is no possibility of overestimating the debt that Christianity owes to the fostering care of the early female converts.
"Women of Early Christianity Woman: In all ages and in all countries, Vol. 3 (of 10)"
Alfred Brittain Mitchell Carroll
If some suspicious reader thinks that I am overestimating the danger of wearing ready-made clothes, I need only remind him that even such gigantic humans as James Chalmers, of New Guinea, and Robert Louis Stevenson feared that ready-made clothes might yet stand between the Church and her conquest of the world.
"Mushrooms on the Moor"
Frank Boreham
Favorinus reproached him with overestimating the versatility of the Roman genius, like his friend Fronto, and underrating the Hellenic intellect.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers

Famous quotes with Overestimating

  • To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.
    Eric Hoffer
  • [Roosevelt] was always... finding new victims to loot and new followers to reward, flouting common sense, and boldly denying its existence, demonstrating by his anti-logic that two and two made five, promising larger and larger slices of the moon. His career will greatly engage historians, if any good ones ever appear in America, but it will be of even more interest to psychologists. He was the first American to penetrate to the real depths of vulgar stupidity. He never made the mistake of overestimating the intelligence of the American mob. He was its unparalleled professor.
    H. L. Mencken

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