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overreaction
an excessive reaction; a reaction with inappropriate emotional behavior
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much ado about nothing
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related words >
big deal
,
emptiness
,
flimsiness
,
foolishness
,
frivolity
,
frivolousness
,
futility
,
idleness
,
inanity
,
levity
,
lightness
,
nugacity
,
overreaction
,
shallowness
,
silliness
,
slenderness
,
slightness
,
superficiality
,
triflingness
,
triteness
,
triviality
,
trivialness
,
vacuity
,
vanity
,
vapidity
tempest in a teapot
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related words >
big deal
,
emptiness
,
flimsiness
,
foolishness
,
frivolity
,
frivolousness
,
futility
,
idleness
,
inanity
,
levity
,
lightness
,
nugacity
,
overreaction
,
shallowness
,
silliness
,
slenderness
,
slightness
,
superficiality
,
triflingness
,
triteness
,
triviality
,
trivialness
,
vacuity
,
vanity
,
vapidity
zealotry
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related words >
bibliolatry
,
bigotry
,
charismatic gift
,
charismatic movement
,
charismatic renewal
,
excessiveness
,
extravagance
,
extremeness
,
extremism
,
fanaticalness
,
fanaticism
,
fervor
,
frenzy
,
fury
,
gift of tongues
,
glossolalia
,
hysteria
,
infatuation
,
mania
,
monomania
,
obsession
,
obsessiveness
,
overambitiousness
,
overanxiety
,
overanxiousness
,
overdevoutness
,
overeagerness
,
overenthusiasm
,
overpiousness
,
overreaction
,
overreligiousness
,
overrighteousness
,
overzealousness
,
pentecostalism
,
perfervidness
,
rabidness
,
radicalism
,
revival
,
revivalism
,
sanctimony
,
single-mindedness
,
terrorism
,
ultrazealousness
,
zeal
,
zealotism
,
zealousness
overemphasis
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too much emphasis
related words >
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
blowing up
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
grandiloquence
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
magnification
,
overcarrying
,
overdoing
,
overestimation
,
overexercise
,
overexertion
,
overexpenditure
,
overimportance
,
overkill
,
overreaching
,
overreaction
,
overstatement
,
overstrain
,
overtaxing
,
overuse
,
overwork
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
sensationalism
,
strain
,
stretching
,
supererogation
,
superlative
,
tall talk
,
tax
,
touting
,
travesty
overestimate
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a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high
an appraisal that is too high
make too high an estimate of; "He overestimated his own powers"
related words >
aggrandize
,
amplify
,
ballyhoo
,
build up
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
carry too far
,
draw the longbow
,
exaggerate
,
exaggeration
,
go to extremes
,
hyperbolize
,
idealize
,
idolize
,
lay it on
,
magnify
,
make much of
,
overappraisal
,
overappraise
,
overassess
,
overassessment
,
overcalculate
,
overcalculation
,
overcharge
,
overcommend
,
overcount
,
overdo
,
overdraw
,
overesteem
,
overestimation
,
overlaud
,
overmeasure
,
overpraise
,
overprize
,
overrate
,
overrating
,
overreach
,
overreact
,
overreact to
,
overreaction
,
overreckon
,
overreckoning
,
oversell
,
overspeak
,
overstate
,
overstatement
,
overstress
,
overvaluation
,
overvalue
,
pile it on
,
puff
,
stretch
,
stretch the truth
,
talk big
,
talk in superlatives
,
tout
,
travesty
overwork
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the act of working too much or too long; "he became ill from overwork"
use too much; "This play has been overworked"
work excessively hard; "he is exploiting the students"
related words >
burden
,
busy
,
carry too far
,
do double duty
,
drive
,
elucubrate
,
exaggerate
,
exhaust
,
fag
,
go overboard
,
go to extremes
,
go too far
,
hit the ball
,
hustle
,
keep busy
,
know no bounds
,
lucubrate
,
oppress
,
overact
,
overburden
,
overcarry
,
overcarrying
,
overdevelop
,
overdo
,
overdoing
,
overdrive
,
overelaborate
,
overemphasis
,
overemphasize
,
overexercise
,
overexert
,
overexertion
,
overexpend
,
overexpenditure
,
overimportance
,
overindulge
,
overlabor
,
overload
,
overplay
,
overreaching
,
overreact
,
overreaction
,
overspend
,
overstrain
,
overstress
,
overstudy
,
overtask
,
overtax
,
overtaxing
,
overtrain
,
overuse
,
pass all bounds
,
pour it on
,
protest too much
,
scratch
,
slave
,
strain
,
supererogation
,
sweat
,
task
,
tax
,
work
,
work hard
,
work late
,
work overtime
excessiveness
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related words >
abandon
,
bigotry
,
boundlessness
,
crapulence
,
crapulency
,
crapulousness
,
drunkenness
,
egregiousness
,
enormousness
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
exorbitancy
,
extortionateness
,
extravagance
,
extravagancy
,
extreme
,
extremeness
,
extremes
,
extremism
,
extremity
,
fabulousness
,
fanaticalness
,
fanaticism
,
giantism
,
gigantism
,
gluttony
,
hyperbole
,
hypertrophy
,
immoderacy
,
immoderateness
,
immoderation
,
incontinence
,
indiscipline
,
indulgence
,
inordinacy
,
inordinance
,
inordinateness
,
intemperance
,
intemperateness
,
monstrousness
,
nimiety
,
outrageousness
,
overdevelopment
,
overdoing
,
overenthusiasm
,
overgreatness
,
overgrowth
,
overindulgence
,
overlargeness
,
overmuch
,
overmuchness
,
overreaction
,
overreligiousness
,
overzealousness
,
perfervidness
,
preposterousness
,
prodigality
,
rabidness
,
radicalism
,
self-indulgence
,
swinishness
,
too much
,
too-muchness
,
ultrazealousness
,
unconscionableness
,
unconstraint
,
uncontrol
,
undueness
,
unreasonableness
,
unrestrainedness
,
unrestraint
,
zealotism
,
zealotry
extremism
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any political theory favoring immoderate uncompromising policies
related words >
Fabianism
,
Jacobinism
,
New Left
,
Old Left
,
abandon
,
anarchism
,
anarcho-syndicalism
,
bigotry
,
boundlessness
,
conversion
,
criminal syndicalism
,
egregiousness
,
enormousness
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
excessiveness
,
exorbitance
,
exorbitancy
,
extravagance
,
extravagancy
,
extreme
,
extreme left
,
extreme left wing
,
extremeness
,
extremes
,
extremity
,
fabulousness
,
factiousness
,
fanaticalness
,
fanaticism
,
giantism
,
gigantism
,
gluttony
,
gradualism
,
hyperbole
,
hypertrophy
,
immoderacy
,
immoderateness
,
immoderation
,
incontinence
,
inordinacy
,
inordinance
,
inordinateness
,
insurgentism
,
insurrectionism
,
intemperance
,
intemperateness
,
left-wing extremism
,
meliorism
,
monstrousness
,
mutinousness
,
nihilism
,
nimiety
,
outrageousness
,
overdevelopment
,
overenthusiasm
,
overgreatness
,
overgrowth
,
overindulgence
,
overlargeness
,
overmuch
,
overmuchness
,
overreaction
,
overreligiousness
,
overzealousness
,
perfervidness
,
progressivism
,
rabidness
,
radical reform
,
radicalism
,
radicalization
,
rebelliousness
,
reform
,
reformation
,
reformism
,
regeneration
,
revisionism
,
revolution
,
revolutionism
,
riotousness
,
sans-culotterie
,
sans-culottism
,
sedition
,
seditiousness
,
subversiveness
,
syndicalism
,
too much
,
too-muchness
,
traitorousness
,
transformation
,
treasonableness
,
ultraconservatism
,
ultraism
,
ultrazealousness
,
unconscionableness
,
undueness
,
unreasonableness
,
unrestrainedness
,
utopianism
,
zealotism
,
zealotry
bigotry
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the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot
related words >
Anglophobia
,
Russophobia
,
Sabbatarianism
,
abhorrence
,
abomination
,
anti-Semitism
,
antipathy
,
authoritarianism
,
aversion
,
balkiness
,
bias
,
bibliolatry
,
blind side
,
blind spot
,
blinders
,
bullheadedness
,
closed mind
,
cramped ideas
,
despitefulness
,
determination
,
detestation
,
dislike
,
doggedness
,
dogmaticalness
,
dogmatism
,
evangelicalism
,
excessiveness
,
execration
,
extravagance
,
extremeness
,
extremism
,
fanaticalness
,
fanaticism
,
fixed mind
,
fundamentalism
,
hardheadedness
,
hate
,
hatred
,
headstrongness
,
hideboundness
,
hyperorthodoxy
,
illiberality
,
infallibilism
,
inflexible will
,
insularism
,
insularity
,
intolerance
,
literalism
,
little-mindedness
,
littleness
,
loathing
,
malevolence
,
malice
,
malignity
,
mean mind
,
meanness
,
misandry
,
misanthropy
,
misogyny
,
mulishness
,
narrow sympathies
,
narrow views
,
narrow-mindedness
,
narrowness
,
nearsightedness
,
obduracy
,
obstinacy
,
obstinateness
,
odium
,
odium theologicum
,
opinionatedness
,
overenthusiasm
,
overreaction
,
overreligiousness
,
overzealousness
,
parochialism
,
partiality
,
peremptoriness
,
perfervidness
,
perseverance
,
pertinacity
,
pettiness
,
petty mind
,
pigheadedness
,
positiveness
,
positivism
,
precisianism
,
prejudice
,
provincialism
,
purblindness
,
purism
,
puritanicalness
,
puritanism
,
rabidness
,
race hatred
,
racism
,
repugnance
,
restiveness
,
sabbatism
,
scripturalism
,
self-opinionatedness
,
self-will
,
shortsightedness
,
shut mind
,
smallness
,
spite
,
spitefulness
,
staunchness
,
stiff neck
,
stiff-neckedness
,
straitlacedness
,
strict interpretation
,
strictness
,
strongheadness
,
stubbornness
,
stuffiness
,
sulkiness
,
sullenness
,
tenaciousness
,
tenacity
,
ultrazealousness
,
uncatholicity
,
uncooperativeness
,
unregenerateness
,
vials of hate
,
vials of wrath
,
willfulness
,
xenophobia
,
zealotism
,
zealotry
fanaticism
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excessive intolerance of opposing views
related words >
agitation
,
authoritarianism
,
balkiness
,
bias
,
bibliolatry
,
bigotry
,
blind side
,
blind spot
,
blinders
,
bluster
,
brawl
,
broil
,
brouhaha
,
bullheadedness
,
cacophony
,
chaos
,
charismatic gift
,
charismatic movement
,
charismatic renewal
,
closed mind
,
commotion
,
cramped ideas
,
dedication
,
determination
,
devotedness
,
devotion
,
disturbance
,
doggedness
,
dogmatism
,
ebullition
,
embroilment
,
enthusiasm
,
excessiveness
,
extravagance
,
extremeness
,
extremism
,
fanaticalness
,
ferment
,
fervor
,
fixed mind
,
flap
,
fomentation
,
foofaraw
,
franticness
,
frenzy
,
fume
,
furor
,
furore
,
fury
,
fuss
,
gift of tongues
,
glossolalia
,
hardheadedness
,
headstrongness
,
hideboundness
,
hubbub
,
hysteria
,
illiberality
,
infatuation
,
inflexible will
,
insularism
,
insularity
,
intolerance
,
little-mindedness
,
littleness
,
madness
,
mania
,
mean mind
,
meanness
,
monomania
,
mulishness
,
narrow sympathies
,
narrow views
,
narrow-mindedness
,
narrowness
,
nearsightedness
,
obduracy
,
obsessiveness
,
obstinacy
,
obstinateness
,
odium theologicum
,
opinionatedness
,
overambitiousness
,
overanxiety
,
overanxiousness
,
overdevoutness
,
overeagerness
,
overenthusiasm
,
overpiousness
,
overreaction
,
overreligiousness
,
overrighteousness
,
overzealousness
,
pandemonium
,
parochialism
,
partiality
,
passion
,
pentecostalism
,
perfervidness
,
perseverance
,
pertinacity
,
pettiness
,
petty mind
,
pigheadedness
,
prejudice
,
provincialism
,
purblindness
,
rabidness
,
racket
,
rage
,
restiveness
,
revival
,
revivalism
,
row
,
ruckus
,
rumpus
,
sanctimony
,
self-will
,
shortsightedness
,
shut mind
,
single-mindedness
,
smallness
,
stiff neck
,
stiff-neckedness
,
storminess
,
straitlacedness
,
strongheadness
,
stubbornness
,
stuffiness
,
sulkiness
,
sullenness
,
tempestuousness
,
tenaciousness
,
tenacity
,
tumult
,
tumultuousness
,
turbulence
,
turmoil
,
ultrazealousness
,
uncatholicity
,
uncooperativeness
,
unregenerateness
,
uproar
,
upset
,
wildness
,
willfulness
,
zeal
,
zealotism
,
zealotry
,
zealousness
exaggeration
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the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"
making to seem more important than it really is
related words >
abandon
,
abstractionism
,
accelerando
,
acceleration
,
affectation
,
aggrandizement
,
aggravation
,
amplification
,
beefing-up
,
blague
,
blowing up
,
blowup
,
boundlessness
,
cock-and-bull story
,
coloring
,
command of language
,
concentration
,
condensation
,
confabulation
,
consolidation
,
deepening
,
deformation
,
distortion
,
egregiousness
,
embellishment
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
enormousness
,
equivocation
,
exacerbation
,
excess
,
excessiveness
,
exorbitance
,
exorbitancy
,
explosion
,
expression of ideas
,
expressionism
,
extravagance
,
extravagancy
,
extreme
,
extremes
,
extremism
,
extremity
,
fabulousness
,
fairy tale
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falsehood
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fashion
,
feeling for words
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flight of fancy
,
flimflam
,
form of speech
,
garbling
,
ghost story
,
giantism
,
gigantism
,
gluttony
,
grace of expression
,
grandiloquence
,
half-truth
,
heating-up
,
heightening
,
hyperbole
,
hypertrophy
,
immoderacy
,
immoderateness
,
immoderation
,
inaccuracy
,
incontinence
,
inflation
,
information explosion
,
injustice
,
inordinacy
,
inordinance
,
inordinateness
,
intemperance
,
intemperateness
,
intensification
,
inundation
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
literary style
,
litotes
,
little white lie
,
magnification
,
manner
,
manner of speaking
,
mannerism
,
mendacity
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misdrawing
,
mispainting
,
misquotation
,
misreport
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
misteaching
,
mode
,
mode of expression
,
monstrousness
,
nimiety
,
nonrealism
,
outrageousness
,
overappraisal
,
overassessment
,
overcalculation
,
overdevelopment
,
overdrawing
,
overestimate
,
overestimation
,
overflowing
,
overgreatness
,
overgrowth
,
overindulgence
,
overlargeness
,
overmuch
,
overmuchness
,
overpass
,
overrating
,
overreaction
,
overreckoning
,
overrun
,
overrunning
,
overspreading
,
overstatement
,
overvaluation
,
peculiarity
,
perjury
,
personal style
,
perversion
,
pickup
,
pious fiction
,
population explosion
,
prevarication
,
radicalism
,
redoubling
,
reinforcement
,
rhetoric
,
romance
,
sense of language
,
slanting
,
slight stretching
,
speedup
,
step-up
,
story
,
strain
,
straining
,
strengthening
,
stretching
,
style
,
stylistic analysis
,
stylistics
,
superiority
,
surplus
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
tall talk
,
taradiddle
,
the grand style
,
the plain style
,
the sublime
,
tightening
,
too much
,
too-muchness
,
trick
,
trumped-up story
,
twisting
,
unconscionableness
,
understatement
,
undueness
,
unreasonableness
,
unrestrainedness
,
untruth
,
vein
,
way
,
white lie
,
yarn
tax
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charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government
make a charge against or accuse; "They taxed him failure to appear in court"
use to the limit; "you are taxing my patience"
levy a tax on; "The State taxes alcohol heavily"; "Clothing is not taxed in our state"
set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)
related words >
accuse
,
allege
,
arraign
,
article
,
ask
,
assess
,
assessment
,
bear hard upon
,
blackmail
,
boodle
,
book
,
bring accusation
,
bring charges
,
bring to book
,
burden
,
burden with
,
burthen
,
busy
,
call
,
call for
,
cargo
,
cess
,
charge
,
charge for
,
cite
,
claim
,
complain
,
conscience money
,
contribution
,
cumber
,
customs
,
demand
,
demand for
,
denounce
,
denunciate
,
direct tax
,
draft
,
drain
,
drive
,
dues
,
duty
,
encumber
,
encumbrance
,
enjoin
,
exact
,
exaction
,
excise
,
exhaust
,
extortion
,
extortionate demand
,
fag
,
fasten on
,
fasten upon
,
finger
,
freight
,
freight with
,
giveaway
,
graduated taxation
,
hamper
,
handicap
,
hang something on
,
haul
,
heave
,
heavy demand
,
impeach
,
imply
,
impose
,
impose on
,
impose upon
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
scot
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
weight
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,
withholding tax
,
work
,
yoke with
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