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

As someone who has often argued that size and strength are overrated and that real challenge dominance is often more closely aligned with things like puzzles, balance, and teamwork, even I was startled by the apparent athletic advantage of the Lagi tribe. —Dalton Ross, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025

Winning a Super Bowl is overrated, according to A.J. Brown. —Ryan Morik, Fox News, 13 Feb. 2025

Punching probably is a bit overrated, to be honest. —Michael Cox, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025

The entire family is outraged, but Peter insists that the film is slow, boring and essentially, overrated. —Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 22 Jan. 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