Overestimate is an English word with synonyms like overestimation or estimate. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Overestimate meaning
To judge or calculate too highly.
Synonyms of Overestimate
Using Overestimate
- The main meaning on this page is: To judge or calculate too highly.
- Useful related words include: overestimation, estimate, estimation, underestimate.
- In the example corpus, overestimate often appears in combinations such as: overestimate the, to overestimate, overestimate their.
Context around Overestimate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overestimate
- In this selection, "overestimate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, believe, vastly, finale, customer, kare and total stand out and add context to how "overestimate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include deeply and overestimate just how and difficult to overestimate. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overestimate" sits close to words such as aapl, abattoir and adjei, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overestimate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The importance of listening skills is hard to overestimate. (9 words)
Understandably, their importance for the global economy is difficult to overestimate. (11 words)
In my head, I always overestimate Kare and that’s not a bad thing. (14 words)
Listen, Doug Bailey was a nice guy and all, but did the Criminal Minds: Evolution finale overestimate how much we, Prentiss et al were vested in the few Season 1 scenes we spent with him? (35 words)
And despite conceding its question was flawed, the ONS said it ‘cannot say with certainty’ if its estimate of the size of the trans population in Britain is ‘an overestimate or an underestimate’. (33 words)
It’s true that writing a book is challenging—and publishing is even harder—but it’s easy to overestimate the process’s complexity if you’ve never gone through it before. (32 words)
Listen, Doug Bailey was a nice guy and all, but did the Criminal Minds: Evolution finale overestimate how much we, Prentiss et al were vested in the few Season 1 scenes we spent with him? (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Both actors excelled at playing highly confident, slightly unhinged characters who tend to get themselves in over their heads when they overestimate their abilities.
If we overestimate customer demand for our products, we could experience excess inventory of our products and be unable to sell those products at a reasonable price, or at all.
It's difficult to overestimate the importance of Tamariz and his contribution to the art of magic.
The impact of this expense reduction, is not yet reflected in Street models, which we believe overestimate our operating loss in the coming years.
And despite conceding its question was flawed, the ONS said it ‘cannot say with certainty’ if its estimate of the size of the trans population in Britain is ‘an overestimate or an underestimate’.
A paper by my colleague Julian Rucker finds that people vastly overestimate how much progress society has made toward racial economic equality.
In my head, I always overestimate Kare and that’s not a bad thing.
Listen, Doug Bailey was a nice guy and all, but did the Criminal Minds: Evolution finale overestimate how much we, Prentiss et al were vested in the few Season 1 scenes we spent with him?
Men tend to overestimate the number of partners and frequency they have sex, women underestimate.
The Israeli posture of deliberate nuclear ambiguity could cause Iran to overestimate the first-strike vulnerabilities of Israel’s nuclear forces.
Understandably, their importance for the global economy is difficult to overestimate.
Wearables tend to overestimate total sleep time and sleep efficiency, typically by more than 10%.
For Reuf Bajrovic, co-chair of the US-Europe Alliance organisation, Biden’s victory “is impossible to overestimate in terms of Bosnia’s trajectory”.
It is hard to overestimate the negative impact Hitler’s foolhardy violation of the Munich Pact had upon Chamberlain.
It’s true that writing a book is challenging—and publishing is even harder—but it’s easy to overestimate the process’s complexity if you’ve never gone through it before.
Markets often overestimate a problem, to begin with, and course-correct with a vengeance.
Perhaps opponents exhale too deeply and overestimate just how much disarray and discouragement there is on the other sideline.
Researchers suggest that it will make us overestimate risks, leading to lower investment and a long-run economic hit of many times the immediate damage we’re living through.
The importance of listening skills is hard to overestimate.
The Insurance Association said that vehicle owners had the tendency to overestimate the market value of their car and failed to revise it to take into account depreciation.
Common combinations with overestimate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- overestimate the 28×
- to overestimate 25×
- overestimate their 4×
- overestimate how 3×
- or overestimate 3×
- they overestimate 2×
- we overestimate 2×
- an overestimate 2×
- always overestimate 2×
- grossly overestimate 2×