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OVERGENERALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overgeneralize mean?
• OVERGENERALIZE (verb)
The verb OVERGENERALIZE has 1 sense:
1. draw too general a conclusion
Familiarity information: OVERGENERALIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Present simple: I / you / we / they overgeneralize ... he / she / it overgeneralizes
Past simple: overgeneralized
Past participle: overgeneralized
-ing form: overgeneralizing
... he / she / it overgeneralizes Past simple: overgeneralized
Past participle: overgeneralized
-ing form: overgeneralizing
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 "overgeneralize" 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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