underrating

Examples

• All

• Many experts warn that underrating the importance of teamwork can lead to project failures.

• The teacher criticized the students for underrating their own abilities and not striving for excellence.

• "The overrating of blood relations is to the underrating of blood relations as the attempt to escape autochthony is to the impossibility of succeeding in it."

  Fiction book (1995)

Synonyms

U

undercount

vsunderrating

5 5.8

A count that is less than the real number of people or things

focuses on value or assessment rather than counting numbers

U

underestimation

vsunderrating

3 4.2

An estimate that is lower than the real value

has identical meaning but covers both estimate and assessment

U

underestimate

vsunderrating

2 3.5

An estimate that is lower than the real amount

has identical meaning but frames it as either estimate or assessment

U

undervaluation

vsunderrating

1 6.5

A price or value lower than something is really worth

is more general, applying to low assessments beyond price

U

underreckoning

vsunderrating

9.9

An estimate that is lower than the real value

has identical meaning but also emphasizes assessment as well

U

underevaluation

vsunderrating

8.2

An estimate that says something is worth less than it really is

is broader, covering low estimates as well as appraisals

Antonyms

O

overrating

4.9

An opinion that something is better or worth more than it really is

How High

overestimate

1 4.9

estimate

370 2.6

underrating

6.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology