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What (who) is overrate - definition
overrate
v. a.
See overprize
overrate
also over-rate
(overrates, overrating, overrated)
If you say that something or someone is overrated, you mean that people have a higher opinion of them than they deserve.
More men are finding out that the joys of work have been overrated...
If you consider him a miracle man, you're overrating him.
? underrate
VERB: be V-ed, V n
• overrated
Life in the wild is vastly overrated.
? underrated
ADJ
overrate
¦ verb [often as adjective overrated] rate more highly than is deserved.
Examples of use of overrate
1. Similarly, it‘s easy to overrate trade‘s impact on factory jobs.
2. Implementing a plan in which settlers can voluntary leave the West Bank will demonstrate just how much the politicians overrate the power of the ideological settlers.
3. However, House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, not previously known as a foe of earmarks, has come to the conclusion that his colleagues vastly overrate the political necessity of pork.
4. Ganguly, 33, was banned for six one–dayers for his team‘s slow overrate in two consecutive matches during a 4–2 ODI series defeat against Pakistan at home in April.
5. So, too, was Alexander‘s assertion about "the tendency of the intelligence community... persistently, and sometimes grossly, to overrate the performance of and therefore... the threat from the opposition." The author‘s final piece of wisdom concerns the need for Europe to develop its own security identity.