Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To estimate too highly.
- v. To esteem too greatly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An estimate that is too high; an overvaluation.
- To estimate too highly; overvalue.
Wiktionary
- v. to judge too highly
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To estimate too highly.
- v. To overvalue.
- n. An estimate that is too high.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an appraisal that is too high
- v. make too high an estimate of
- n. a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high
- v. assign too high a value to
Etymologies
- over- + estimate (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Part of the overestimate was a failure to anticipate a large number of motorists who renewed plates and driver licenses early to beat the fee increases.”
“Horner: RBR rivals 'overestimate' benefits of blown rear-end”
“Therefore, I would suggest that the title of the Cornell news release "Global warming predictions are overestimated, suggests study on black carbon", while technically correct, is rather misleading in that a casual reading would infer an "overestimate" rather larger than the couple percent implied by the study.”
“The one million ban that Microsoft pulled on its Xbox Live players with modded console units now have been flagged as a mere "overestimate".”
“I don't think saying that the leader of the National Association of Evangelicals, who also was the pastor of a 14,000-member megachurch, and one of TIME's 25 most influential evangelicals has influence one the vote of CC's is an "overestimate".”
“The literature on political heterogeneity within social networks suggests that people tend to overestimate the degree of political congruence among their friends: Robert Huckfeldt and John Sprague, Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication: Information and Influence in an Election Campaign New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.”
“Furthermore, when interpreting these numbers, we should keep in mind that members of majority groups have a tendency to overestimate the proportion of minorities in their surroundings a form of misperception that presumably applies to churches, therefore inflating the degree of diversity reported by congregants.36”
“Research has shown that we tend to overestimate what a portion size should be for high-carbohydrate foods, as compared to high-fat foods, and that, unfortunately, our portion sizes tend to correlate with our body mass index.”
“It is impossible to overestimate the significance of leaks from the military to the media, particularly to Bob Woodward and his paper, the Washington Post.”
“The results: Men looking for a quick hookup were more likely to overestimate the women's desire for them.”
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