overrate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An excessive estimate or rate.
动词 v.
  1. To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
  2. To overstate or overestimate in amount, extent, degree, etc.
    — The vicissitudes of the weather may be responsible for more suffering among the lower animals than in the case of man, but we who live in England are perhaps inclined to overrate the amount of inconvenience occasioned to the world at large by this cause.

词形变化

overrates present,singular,third-person overrating participle,present overrated participle,past overrated past over-rate alternative overrates plural over-rate alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
overrater

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English rate
English overrate
From over- + rate.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English rate
English overrate
From over- + rate.
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