OVERVALUES Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

overvalues

verb

present tense third-person singular of overvalue

as in values

to place too high a value on some people overvalue material things

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Recent Examples of overvalues Some think that price tag significantly overvalues the company. — ABC News, 12 June 2026 By including rising rents into the calculation for how much landlord expenses are increasing, the data overvalues landlord expenses to justify further rent increases. — Joanne Grell, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026

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For an eclipse chaser who values that, scenery over duration, or relative quiet, this geographical knife-edge could be appealing.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Gross revenue last season was $681 million, but the deal values the team at roughly 20 times net revenue, after their revenue-sharing bill and the league’s cut of playoff gate receipts.

— Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of values

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The critic's power stems from the brain's inherent negativity bias, a survival mechanism that overestimates threats.

— Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Hopkins is, perhaps, the closest thing this story has to a Kornev—a principled outsider who ultimately overestimates the value of his own empathy and knowledge.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026

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Maybe the Famesick book tour showed Lena Dunham just how much the world appreciates Girls now, or maybe new HBO owner David Ellison just loves the show that much.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2026
Omelchenko appreciates the study authors’ ability to translate math to real life but notes that fully evaluating the possibilities of new stitches by using torus diagrams would be impractically expensive to compute.

— Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026

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