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⚖️ Weighing too much 💹 More than normal ⚖️ Too much body fat 🎯 To give too much importance
to overweight

to overweight

1 6.7
Give too much importance to something when judging
  • verb
  • /ˌoʊvərˈweɪt/
translation icon : dar demasiado peso a
  • If not, it's because the polling organization became irrelevant when they overweighted their key demographic samples, skewing their results which then became outliers on a national scale, very similar to what Pew, NYTimes, CBS, and Washington Post media polls are doing today.

Examples

  • If his bias is to overweight the biased polls towards Obama, he may be way off, and Romney may have a 90% probability.

    Blog text (1)

  • Advisors often warn against overweighting a single asset class to avoid increased risk.

  • So I quite often they overweight problems and symptoms that are common to all kinds of conditions.

  • The main idea here is that the yesterday mole, as we have described it up to now, really it overweights the present.

  • The current cadre of guest speakers is overweighted toward males, making it look like entrepreneurship is too much of a guy thing.

    Academic text (2017)

  • However, we still believe investors should overweight emerging markets, and we prefer Brazil, China, and—for those with a high tolerance for volatility—Russia.

    Blog text (32)

  • The second is salience, "a heuristic that causes decision-makers to overweight the importance of vivid, concrete foreground information and to underweight the importance of abstract, aggregated background information."

    Academic text (2017)

  • Many investors tend to overweight technology stocks in their portfolios, believing they will outperform the market.

  • It is common to overweight certain sectors in investment strategies, especially during economic booms.

Synonyms

to overplay
vsto overweight
13 4.6

Make something seem more important or serious than it really is

is focused simply on assigning too much importance when judging
to overemphasize
vsto overweight
8 5.5

Treat something as more important than it should be

is about giving too much importance when considering or evaluating something
to overstress
vsto overweight
1 5.8

To give something too much importance

is the broader tendency to give too much importance in evaluation
to make a meal of
vsto overweight
  • Informal
1 8.3

Act as if something is much more difficult or important than it is

is the act of assigning too much importance in assessment
to overread
vsto overweight
1 8.2

To see something as having more meaning than it really has

is wider, applying to giving too much importance in general evaluation
to overindex on
vsto overweight
  • Jargon
8.9

To pay too much attention to one thing and ignore others

is the general act of giving too much importance across considerations
to overconcentrate
vsto overweight
7.7

Give too much attention to one thing and ignore others

is about overvaluing something when weighing or evaluating options

Antonyms

to underemphasize
1 6.7

To give too little attention to something

How Emphasized

to overweight
1 6.7
to emphasize
  • US
397 3.7
to mention
  • Formal
83 2.8
to downplay
59 5.3
to ignore
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

overweight infinitive
overweighted past
overweighted past participle
overweighting present participle
overweights third person singular

Morphology

overweight = weight (transparent) = over + weight

Standard verb formation by prefixing 'over-' (excess) to the verb 'weight' meaning 'to give weight/importance'.

Etymology

Overweight comes from over- ('too much') and weight ('importance'), so as a verb it means to give something 'too much' importance when you judge it.