Question of the Day #351

"Bryce Harper responds to being voted MLB's 'most overrated' player"
From the headline of this article at USA Today.

上記の文で、overratedの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "overrated" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、


過大評価された

反意語は、underratedです。

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

rated or valued too highly

Etymology/語源

Online Etymology Dictionaryによると、

1610年代から。動詞のover- + rateより。

According to Online Etymology Dictionary:

1610s, from over- + rate (v.).

Examples

• 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 overratedElizabeth 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
• In my opinion, she's a hugely overrated singer.
• After seeing the award-winning movie, we decided it was overrated.
• The whole business of eating out in restaurants she considered a worryingly overrated activity.