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Outweigh vs Overestimate - What's the difference?

outweigh | overestimate |

As verbs the difference between outweigh and overestimate

is that outweigh is to exceed in weight or mass while overestimate is to judge too highly.

outweigh

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To exceed in weight or mass.
  • To exceed in importance or value.
  • *
    • The advantage was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.

    overestimate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to judge too highly
    • Experts overestimate the level of harm of cigarettes.

    Antonyms

    * (to judge too highly) underestimate