to underappreciate
- verb
- /ˌʌndərəˈpriːʃiˌeɪt/
- If you underappreciate your team's contributions, they may feel unvalued and demotivated.
- think I underappreciated
And mental health, a key part of overall Wellness, tends to go underappreciated or even unappreciated in some contexts.
- And mental health, a key part of overall Wellness, tends to go underappreciated or even unappreciated in some contexts.
Examples
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Underappreciated and under attack, caterpillars also have to contend with freeloaders.
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Underappreciated in academic analyses, though sometimes generating a buzz in the popular media, is the role of the religious in these doings.
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Hey, don't underappreciate my efforts, okay?
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I'll just come right out and say it: I think we underappreciate and undervalue the people around us.
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- Underappreciated.
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And mental health, a key part of overall Wellness, tends to go underappreciated or even unappreciated in some contexts.
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Although advertisements for shoes, alcohol, and upcoming season premieres surround us, we often underappreciate the effect that marketing strategies have on less flagrantly commercial products and services.
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The editors of DomainGang wrote a piece today describing how their work seems to be underappreciated by Francois when it comes to the daily links provided in his daily newsletter.
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While these scholars are right to locate in the Essays a revolutionary discussion of the subjective self, they underappreciate the balance between the subjective and the universal in Montaigne's conception.
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Many people underappreciate the hard work that goes into volunteer efforts.
Synonyms
Think something or someone is less important than they really are
Make a person or thing seem less important and less valuable
To think someone or something is not important
Antonyms
How Appreciated
Surface Forms
Morphology
underappreciate = appreciate (transparent) = under + appreciate
The productive prefix 'under-' meaning 'insufficiently' combines with the verb 'appreciate' to yield the clearly derived meaning 'to appreciate less than deserved'.
Etymology
The word underappreciate is made of under- meaning 'not enough' or 'below' and appreciate meaning 'to value' or 'to thank'. So, to underappreciate someone or something is to give less value or thanks than they deserve.