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OVERGENERALISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overgeneralise mean?
• OVERGENERALISE (verb)
The verb OVERGENERALISE has 1 sense:
1. draw too general a conclusion
Familiarity information: OVERGENERALISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they overgeneralise ... he / she / it overgeneralises
Past simple: overgeneralised
Past participle: overgeneralised
-ing form: overgeneralising
Past simple: overgeneralised
Past participle: overgeneralised
-ing form: overgeneralising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Draw too general a conclusion
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
overgeneralise; overgeneralize
Context example:
It is dangerous to overgeneralize
Hypernyms (to "overgeneralise" is one way to...):
extrapolate; generalise; generalize; infer (draw from specific cases for more general cases)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
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