overestimate

See also: over-estimate

English

Etymology

over- +‎ estimate

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvəɹˈɛstɪmeɪt/

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• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvəɹˈɛstɪmət/

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Verb

overestimate (third-person singular simple present overestimates, present participle overestimating, simple past and past participle overestimated)

1. To judge or calculate too highly.

   I overestimated the number of attendees, and bought far too much food for the party.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], page 15:

     One must be especially careful when using Google to determine frequency as there is a very real risk of fantastically overestimating the frequency and subsequent importance of a term.

Antonyms

• (to judge too highly): underestimate

Translations

to judge too highly

• Armenian: գերագնահատել (hy) (geragnahatel)
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: надценявам (bg) (nadcenjavam)
• Catalan: sobreestimar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 高估 (gou¹ gu²)

  Mandarin: 高估 (gāogū), 估計過高／估计过高 (gūjì guògāo), 估计过高 (gūjì guògāo)

• Czech: přecenit
• Danish: overvurdere
• Dutch: overschatten (nl)
• Finnish: yliarvioida (fi)
• French: surestimer (fr)
• Galician: sobreestimar (gl)
• German: überschätzen (de)
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• Greek: υπερεκτιμώ (el) (yperektimó)
• Hungarian: túlbecsül (hu)
• Italian: sopravvalutare (it), sovrastimare
• Japanese: 過大評価する (kadaihyōka suru), 買い被る (kaikaburu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overvurdere

  Nynorsk: overvurdere

• Polish: zawyżać impf, zawyżyć (pl) pf, przeceniać (pl)
• Portuguese: superestimar (pt), sobrestimar, sobre-estimar
• Russian: переоце́нивать (ru) impf (pereocénivatʹ), переоцени́ть (ru) pf (pereocenítʹ)
• Spanish: sobrestimar (es)
• Swedish: överskatta (sv)
• Telugu: ఎక్కువ అంచనా వేయు (ekkuva añcanā vēyu) (ekkuva anchanaa vEyu)
• Ukrainian: переоціни́ти pf (pereocinýty), переоці́нювати impf (pereocínjuvaty)

Noun

overestimate (plural overestimates)

1. An estimate that is too high.
   • 2013, Peter Karl Kresl, Jaime Sobrino, Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies

     The employment projection for the metropolitan area for 1985 was an overestimate by about 12 percent.