underrate

Speech parts

1. underrate - Noun

2. underrate - Verb

Meaning

To rate too low; to rate below the value; to undervalue.

A price less than the value; as, to sell a thing at an underrate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

underestimate lower slam minify reduce minimize discount knock diminish lessen disdain ridicule scorn disparage decry
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Antonyms

dramatize elaborate enhance praise acclaim maximize
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Hypernyms

misjudge

Hyponyms

sell short

Anagrams

denaturer renatured

Examples

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. Franz Kafka

Let us not underrate the value of a fact it will one day flower into a truth. Henry David Thoreau

There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. Margaret Atwood

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. Robert Louis Stevenson

As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses. Gustav Stresemann

There is one moral duty that moralists underrate almost criminally - the duty to enjoy god's world. Jewish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

underquotation underquote underranger underrated underratedly underratedness