Overrate vs Overestimate - What's the difference?
overrate | overestimate |
To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
to judge too highly
As verbs the difference between overrate and overestimate
is that overrate is to esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due while overestimate is to judge too highly.overrate
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Alternative forms
* over-rateVerb
(en-verb)overestimate
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Verb
(en-verb)- Experts overestimate the level of harm of cigarettes.