overstated

ADJECTIVE

overdone

Synonyms

STRONG

elaborate exaggerated

WEAK

extravagant too much

ADJECTIVE

sweeping

Synonyms

STRONGEST

across-the-board all-encompassing broad comprehensive exhaustive extensive radical thorough wholesale

STRONG

blanket complete exaggerated full general overall overdrawn

WEAK

all-around all-embracing all-inclusive all-out bird's-eye global inclusive indiscriminate out-and-out thorough-going unqualified vast wall-to-wall whole-hog wide

Antonyms

STRONGEST

narrow partial restricted superficial

STRONG

incomplete needy specific

WEAK

exclusive

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Appeared in the December 11, 2025, print edition as 'Powell Warns of Overstated Job Figures'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

Overstated the depth of his past debts and the number of his employees.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2016

Steve Jobs and Apple's Influence on Gaming Massively Overstated tims999 Apple this week to buy or to sell?

From Forbes • Nov. 7, 2011

Overstated, perhaps; but declarations of faith tend to be, just as universal languages are more legible to their inventors than to anyone else.

From Time Magazine Archive

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