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

If this foray into the trenches works, as the Bears try to upgrade the roster for Johnson’s first season, one of the real benefits should be legitimately improving a previously overrated team culture. —Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025

The scene sounds like a real-life debate about a possibly overrated movie, and the conversation becomes hilariously heated, despite the near-death situation. —Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025

At this point in time, the NBA has become a wildly overrated product. —Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025

Josh Allen was voted the NFL’s most overrated quarterback in a recent poll conducted by ESPN. —Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024

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