overrated

adjective

over·​rat·​ed ˌō-vər-ˈrā-təd 

: rated or valued too highly

an overrated book/movie/restaurant

The reign of James I is under scrutiny again. For too long this king has been the victim of literary pastiche, deployed as a foil to the fleeing glory of the overrated Elizabeth I.

—J. A. Guy

… Garrick had arranged for a member of the audience (a fellow actor), dressed as a Frenchified fop, to complain—as connoisseurs of French literary taste had complained for generations—that Shakespeare was vulgar, provincial, and overrated.

—Jonathan Bate

Examples of overrated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After being named the most overrated player in the league by his peers earlier in the season, Haliburton seemed to be on a mission to prove all the doubters wrong in the playoffs. —Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 23 June 2025

More from Sports The Reds will pay tribute to Pete Rose after his reinstatement from MLB An NBA star was named 'most overrated' by his peers. —Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 15 May 2025

His peers famously voted him the league’s most overrated player. —Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 15 June 2025

In this season’s anonymous player poll here at The Athletic the two-time All-Star’s colleagues named him the league’s most overrated player, but Haliburton’s playoff performance should fully silence any of those questions. —Eric Nehm, New York Times, 29 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1586, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for overrated

• abdicated
• abrogated
• acclimated
• activated
• actuated
• adumbrated
• advocated
• aggravated
• aggregated
• agitated
• allocated
• alternated