Usually means: Assign excessively high value to.
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  1. overrate: Merriam-Webster
  2. overrate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overrate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overrate: Vocabulary.com
  6. overrate: Wordnik
  7. overrate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. overrate: Wiktionary
  9. overrate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overrate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. overrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Overrate, overrate: Dictionary.com
  13. overrate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Overrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. overrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. overrate: Rhymezone
  17. overrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. overrate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. overrate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. overrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. overrate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overrate: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overrate)

▸ verb:  To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
▸ noun:  An excessive estimate or rate.

Similar:
overestimate, over-rate, overpraise, overvalue, overesteem, overevaluate, overappraise, overhold, overstate, overglorify, more...

Opposite:
underrate, underestimate, devalue, downplay

Types:
overestimate, miscalculate, underestimate, gauge, evaluate, appraise, analyze, more...


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Similar:
overestimate, over-rate, overpraise, overvalue, overesteem, overevaluate, overappraise, overhold, overstate, overglorify, more...

Opposite:
underrate, underestimate, devalue, downplay

Types:
overestimate, miscalculate, underestimate, gauge, evaluate, appraise, analyze, more...



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