overestimate

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Verb

overestimate (overestimates, present participle overestimating; 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.

Antonyms

• (to judge too highly) underestimate

Translations

• French: surestimer
• German: überschätzen
• Italian: sopravvalutare
• Portuguese: superestimar, sobrestimar, sobre-estimar
• Russian: переоце́нивать
• Spanish: sobrestimar

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.

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