Associations to the word «Overstated»

Wiktionary

OVERSTATE, verb. To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.

Dictionary definition

OVERSTATE, verb. To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley