Overestimate vs Exaggerate - What's the difference?
overestimate | exaggerate |
to judge too highly
To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
As verbs the difference between overestimate and exaggerate
is that overestimate is to judge too highly while exaggerate is to overstate, to describe more than is fact.overestimate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Experts overestimate the level of harm of cigarettes.
Antonyms
* (to judge too highly) underestimateexaggerate
English
Verb
(exaggerat)- I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate !
- He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating . The real number is about ten.