overestimate
overestimate
Definition
over·esti·mate (ō′vər es′tə māt′; for n. ō′vər es′tə mit)
transitive verb overestimated -·mat′ed, overestimating -·mat′·ing
to set too high an estimate on or for
noun
an estimate that is too high
overestimate
Synonyms
overestimate
Usage Examples
Object
- importance: I can't overestimate the importance of these student publications.
- extent: It is hard to overestimate the extent of financial illiteracy among some consumers.
- significance: It is hard to overestimate the significance of this change.
- concentration: The simple area model may also overestimate concentrations close to small industrial sources by neglecting stack effects.
- impact: Sample reactions were: I don't think you can overestimate the impact it has had on some of our lives.
Adjective modifier
- gross: We believe it to be a gross overestimate for the reasons set out below.
Modifying Another Word
- grossly: Indeed I suspect doctors grossly overestimate their capacity for altering patients decisions.
- vastly: Such writers tend, in my view, to vastly overestimate the uniqueness of their ideas.
- greatly: But you greatly overestimate your worth Wayne and the Blind man Wayne and the blind man Walking along side by side.
- consistently: The general public consistently overestimates the amount of Lottery money earmarked for the Good Causes.
- significantly: The figures will tend to significantly overestimate the number of patients who had these investigations for heart failure.
- seriously: Advertisement That's because most people seriously overestimate how much state and private pension they will get.
Noun used with modifier
- cannot: You cannot overestimate how long this job will take you.
Used with why or when
- what: Exercise: Most people overestimate what we need to do to stay healthy.
Preposition: of
- cost: It has now been revealed that that was a gross overestimate of the cost.
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