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Underpredict vs Overpredict - What's the difference?

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Overpredict is a related term of underpredict.



As verbs the difference between underpredict and overpredict

is that underpredict is to predict to be smaller than is the case while overpredict is to predict to be higher than the actual value.

underpredict

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To predict to be smaller than is the case

    • Related terms

    *underprediction

    overpredict

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To predict to be higher than the actual value
    • The harvest was overpredicted because the forecasters did not anticipate the dry weather.

    Derived terms

    *overprediction

    Related terms

    *underpredict