Underread vs Overread - What's the difference?
underread | overread | Antonyms |
To read below what is normal, usual, or expected.
To read insufficiently or with less competency, alertness, ability, etc.
To read to a lesser degree.
(obsolete) To read over, or peruse.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.11:
*:Over the dore thus written she did spye, / Bee bold : she oft and oft it over-red , / Yet could not find what sence it figured […].
To interpret something to a greater degree, or in a more positive way, than appropriate; read too in-depth; overinterpret; overanalyze.
*2005 , Hilde Heynen, ?Gulsum Baydar, Negotiating Domesticity :
*2008 , H. Porter Abbott, The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative :
*{{quote-news, 2009, January 20, Heather Timmons And Jeremy Kahn, Past Graft Is Tainting New India, New York Times
, passage=Did we just overread and overstate our place in the world? }}
To read too much or excessively.
Overread is a antonym of underread.
In transitive terms the difference between underread and overread
is that underread is to read to a lesser degree while overread is to interpret something to a greater degree, or in a more positive way, than appropriate; read too in-depth; overinterpret; overanalyze.underread
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*overread
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- To overread Plath's houses is to transform these biographical documents into spatial ones.
- At the same time, we overread . That is, we find in narratives qualities, motives, moods, ideas, judgments, even events for which there is no direct evidence in the discourse.
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