| 单词 | overestimate |
| 释义 | overestimate (once / 4567 pages) vn If you're confident your favorite team will win the championship even though the star player is injured, you may want to reconsider: don't let your team spirit cause you to overestimate, or overvalue, the team's abilities. When you estimate something, you make a calculation or a judgment of its value. So, when you overestimate, you assign too much value to the thing you are judging. If you overestimate how much time you have left to get to school, you could be late. Likewise, if you overestimate how prepared you are for a test, you might end up with a poor grade. This verb is the opposite of underestimate, or “to assign too little value.” WORD FAMILYoverestimate: overestimated, overestimates, overestimating, overestimation+/estimable: estimably, inestimable/estimate: estimable, estimated, estimates, estimating, estimation, estimator, misestimate, overestimate, underestimate/estimation: estimations/estimator: estimators/inestimable: inestimably/misestimate: misestimated, misestimates, misestimation/overestimation: overestimations/underestimate: underestimated, underestimates, underestimating, underestimation/underestimation: underestimations USAGE EXAMPLESThe WSJ medal predictions underestimated the American Olympic team, as well as the British and overestimated the Australians in Rio. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) Maybe they overestimated Bradley too, even though his appointment always seemed a shot in the dark. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) Like the 2016 election, an effort to exploit Republican unease with Trump overestimated Republican unease and underestimated Democratic division. Slate(Dec 20, 2016) 1v make too high an estimate of He overestimated his own powers Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper overrate underestimate, underrate make too low an estimate of overcapitalise, overcapitalize overestimate the market value of misjudge judge incorrectly 2v assign too high a value to You are overestimating the value of your old car Syn|Ant|Hyper overvalue underestimate, undervalue assign too low a value to value fix or determine the value of; assign a value to 3n an appraisal that is too high Syn|Hyper overappraisal, overestimation, overvaluation appraisal, estimate, estimation a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) 4n a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high Syn|Hyper overestimation, overrating, overreckoning approximation, estimate, estimation, idea an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth |
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