0 the act of describing or explaining something in a way that makes it seem more important or more serious than it really is:
1 a statement that something is larger, more important, or more serious than it really is:
An internal inquiry into accounting irregularities revealed a $70m overstatement by a subsidiary company.
The word 'tragedy' in the tragedy of the commons no longer seems like an overstatement if that is correct.
It would be an overstatement to say that local groups were radically homogenous, whatever that would mean.
Yet these episodes of reader response are not easily converted into general arguments-or general arguments that avoid overstatement.
On the other hand, claiming that patients lack conscious experience is also an overstatement.
And it is open to us, if challenged, to supply further instances of overstatement from the same body of materials.
In particular, we identify two issues : the omitted cost problem and the overstatement of the retirement response.
It is not an overstatement to say that this book presents a more socially oriented and synthetic approach to discourse for the twenty-first century.
Moreover, the main characteristic of demarcations by such organisations is their overstatement of their case.
