overrated

overrated

See also: over-rated

English

Alternative forms

• over-rated

Etymology

over- +‎ rated.

Adjective

overrated (comparative more overrated, superlative most overrated)

1. Given an undue amount of credit for quality or merit in a field; not necessarily related to popularity.

   My sister is an overrated singer.

   • 2008, Lisa Tucker, Shout Down the Moon, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     I say, “Tom Cruise,” because I know Irene hates Tom Cruise and she'll go on and on about why he's completely overrated.

Antonyms

• underrated

Translations

rated too highly

Chinese: Mandarin: 被高估 (bèi gāogū) Dutch: overschat (nl) Finnish: yliarvostettu French: surfait (fr), surestimé (fr), surcoté (fr) German: überschätzt (de), überbewertet (de) Icelandic: ofmetinn m, ofmetin f, ofemtið n Japanese: 過大評価された (かだいひょうかされた, kadaihyōka sareta) Polish: przeceniany, przereklamowany (pl) Portuguese: sobrestimado Russian: переоце́ненный (ru) (pereocénennyj) Spanish: sobrevalorado (es), sobreestimado (es) m, sobrevaluado Swedish: överreklamerad (sv) Turkish: şişirilmiş, abartılmış, abartılı (tr), abartmalı (tr), mübalağalı (tr)

Verb

overrated

1. simple past tense and past participle of overrate

Anagrams

• overtrade, overtread