overestimate

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.