overrate
/əʊvəˈreɪt
/verb [with object] (often as adjective overrated)
Have a higher opinion of (someone or something) than is deserved: an overrated player...
- In your opinion, who is the most overrated celebrity today?
- On the other hand, maybe sanity is overrated, and a decent sabbatical from fiction is just what my brain needs to come up with loads of exciting new ideas.
- There are those who say that he is overrated on some counts - that he made some bad Beethoven recordings, and so on.
Synonyms
assess too highly, overestimate, overvalue, rate/prize too highly, think too much of, exaggerate the worth of, attach too much importance to;
praise too highly, exaggerate the merits of, over-praise, oversell, glorify, magnify
informal blow up
rare overprize