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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca