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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overestimate
I.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A Harvard University survey found that Americans significantly overestimate the cost of higher education.
▪ I made enough food for forty people but it looks like I overestimated.
▪ Never overestimate your ability or strength when swimming in the ocean.
▪ People overestimated the risk of catching the disease.
▪ The generals had overestimated the strength of the enemy forces.
▪ We overestimated how long the journey would take, and arrived far too early.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After this it may be possible to evaluate whether he did overestimate its importance.
▪ Biased estimates of variation in reproductive success may also cause the effects of particular phenotypic traits on reproductive success to be overestimated.
▪ Even with that bleak assessment, however, Richard Helms overestimated his true influence.
▪ In his budget and health care proposals, Clinton overestimated the public tolerance for new government programs.
▪ It is hard to overestimate the impact of the crisis.
▪ Some observers believe polls overestimated the influence of undecided voters.
▪ The second mistake was overestimating the cost of memory.
▪ The significance of this result, whose outlines have been generally confirmed since, can hardly be overestimated.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We thought the job would cost $5000, but this was an overestimate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even if most figures for waste are not overestimates, national statistics tell a less-than-apocalyptic tale.
▪ Even this short period spent in Stages and 4 may be an overestimate.
▪ It could be argued that this apparent overestimate is a true reflection of the total amount of uplift.
▪ Most historians at the moment would regard that as a wild overestimate.
▪ These areas have apparently acquired an enhanced vitrinite reflectance which has led to an apparent overestimate of uplift.
▪ When computing uplift from a Marie-type graph such situations would give rise to an overestimate of uplift for the Carboniferous.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overestimate

Overestimate \O`ver*es"ti*mate\, v. t.

  1. To estimate too highly.

  2. Hence: To overvalue.

Overestimate

Overestimate \O`ver*es"ti*mate\, n. An estimate that is too high; as, an overestimate of the vote.

Wiktionary
overestimate

vb. to judge too highly

WordNet
overestimate

  1. n. an appraisal that is too high [syn: overestimation, overvaluation, overappraisal]

  2. a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high [syn: overestimation, overrating, overreckoning]

  3. v. make too high an estimate of; "He overestimated his own powers" [syn: overrate] [ant: underestimate]

  4. assign too high a value to; "You are overestimating the value of your old car" [syn: overvalue] [ant: undervalue, undervalue]

Usage examples of "overestimate".

As tears ran through the blood on his face and trailed down his chin, Aspar realized that even fifteen had been an overestimate.

Considering the colossal weight of geopolitics and geopolitical thought in present Russian security thinking, these implications cannot be overestimated.

I fear to disappoint you, my lord, but you have overestimated the power of your charm.

Malazan soldiers are sufficient to take Coral and destroy the Pannion Domin, then we have seriously overestimated our enemy.

It is vital not to overestimate the separation of functions on either side of the corpus callosum in a normal human being.

Was he overestimating the effectiveness of the Juno and Ramage batteries against French ships trying to pass?

These battleship officers, like most people, were callowly inclined to admire and overestimate the Nazi war machine.

No ordinary touchdown that, I knew, not even for a belly landing: the pilot must have overestimated his height and set his ship down with force enough to crumple the fuselage, to wreck the plane on the spot.

He also taught me that the pace of revolutionary change is usually overestimated in the short run and the magnitude of such change is usually underestimated in the long run.

McClellan, as we well know, is always overcautious and overestimates our numbers, but public opinion in the North will force him to action.

Attention was called again and again to his great overestimates of Lee's army and to the paralysis that seemed to overcome him when he was in the presence of the enemy.

The efficiency of the new nuclear chemical power plant had not been overestimated.

Yes, Tempus had the right idea, but because he is Tempus Thales, and a fool, he overestimates the importance of his Stepsons and commandoes.