overvalue

1. 1.

   assign too high a value to

   “You are overestimating the value of your old car”

   Synonymsoverestimate

   Antonymsundervalue

   Broadervalue

Other forms of overvalue

past tense

overvalued·

present participle

overvaluing·

third person

overvalues·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overvalue

What does overvalue mean?

overvalue means "assign too high a value to".

How many syllables are in overvalue?

overvalue has 4 syllables: o-ver-val-ue. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˌvælju/.

What is another word for overvalue?

Close synonyms include overestimate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of overvalue?

The recorded antonyms are undervalue.

Is overvalue a common word?

overvalue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with overvalue?

3 words rhyme with overvalue. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.