overestimate

See also: over-estimate

English

Etymology

over- +‎ estimate

Pronunciation

(verb) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvəɹˈɛstɪmeɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(noun) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvəɹˈɛstɪmət/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Verb

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

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, 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: пераацэ́ньваць impf (pjeraacénʹvacʹ), пераацані́ць pf (pjeraacanícʹ)
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)
Czech: přecenit
Danish: overvurdere
Dutch: overschatten (nl)
Finnish: yliarvioida (fi)
French: surestimer (fr)
Galician: sobreestimar (gl)
German: überschätzen (de)
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)
Turkish: gözünde büyütmek (tr)
Ukrainian: переоціни́ти pf (pereocinýty), переоці́нювати impf (pereocínjuvaty)

Noun

overestimate (plural overestimates)

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.

Translations

an estimate that is too high

Belarusian: пераацэнка f (pjeraacenka)
Russian: переоце́нка (ru) f (pereocénka)