Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To estimate too highly.
- transitive verb To esteem too greatly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To estimate too highly; overvalue.
- noun An estimate that is too high; an overvaluation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To estimate too highly.
- transitive verb To overvalue.
- noun An estimate that is too high.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to judge too highly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an appraisal that is too high
- verb make too high an estimate of
- noun a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high
- verb assign too high a value to
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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Horner: RBR rivals 'overestimate' benefits of blown rear-end
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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".
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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.
RealClimate 2009
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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".
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The one million ban that Microsoft pulled on its Xbox Live players with modded console units now have been flagged as a mere "overestimate".
Xbox 360 2009
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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.
RealClimate 2009
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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.
RealClimate 2009
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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.
RealClimate 2009
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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".
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