to misvalue

Examples

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• Right, but the AAA turned out to be worth 0.30 on a dollar because the artifact was misvalued in the first place.

  Blog text (23)

• Under reform legislation, Congress has also granted the Secretary of HHS the power to review the Medicare payment schedule and adjust "misvalued" physicians' services to prevent either overtreatment or undertreatment.

  Blog text (10)

• They, they, they, they misvalue risks in all kinds of ways.

• "This is the immediate utility of aesthetic education that many parents have misunderstood and consequently misvalued—yes, undervalued!

  Academic text (1997)

• Of course, though, the rules are a bit different for the ultra-rich... they can (for instance) buy a company, issue stock, and value it at next to nothing (even though that's not what it is really worth) and then deposit this obscenely misvalued stock into their IRAs in order to have a nice 'nest egg' to draw upon come retirement.

  Blog text (1)

• If you misvalue the importance of saving money, you might struggle with financial stability later on.

• She realized she had misvalued her friend's contributions to the project after receiving positive feedback.

Synonyms

M

to miscalculate

vsto misvalue

23 4.5

To get an amount or time wrong

assigns wrong monetary worth rather than just a numeric error

M

to misestimate

vsto misvalue

1 6.5

Give a wrong idea of how big, how long, or how much something is

assigns an inappropriate precise worth rather than a general estimate

M

to misgauge

vsto misvalue

1 8.1

Judge or estimate something wrongly

focuses on setting an exact worth instead of a general judgment

How Accurately Valued

to value

107 3.0

to undervalue

2 4.1

to misvalue

7.9

to overvalue

13 5.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology