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OVERRATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overrating mean? 

OVERRATING (noun)
  The noun OVERRATING has 1 sense:

1. a calculation that results in an estimate that is too highplay

  Familiarity information: OVERRATING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OVERRATING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A calculation that results in an estimate that is too high

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

overestimate; overestimation; overrating; overreckoning

Hypernyms ("overrating" is a kind of...):

approximation; estimate; estimation; idea (an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth)

Derivation:

overrate (make too high an estimate of)


 Context examples 


It is beyond price, which you will acknowledge is a terrific overrating, but which I cannot help, for it is the life that is in me that makes the rating.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She had no hope, nothing to deserve the name of hope, that he could have that sort of affection for herself which was now in question; but there was a hope (at times a slight one, at times much stronger,) that Harriet might have deceived herself, and be overrating his regard for her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)



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