Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To rate too low; underestimate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To rate too low; rate below the value; undervalue.
- noun A price less than the true value.
- Being below the standard; inferior.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To rate too low; to rate below the value; to undervalue.
- noun A price less than the value.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to
underestimate ; to make toolow arate orestimate - noun A
price less than thevalue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make too low an estimate of
Etymologies
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Examples
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The epigraph to the book The Happiness Project is a quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson: "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."
Gretchen Rubin: The Value of Connecting With Others for True Happiness Gretchen Rubin 2010
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The epigraph to the book The Happiness Project is a quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson: "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."
Gretchen Rubin: The Value of Connecting With Others for True Happiness Gretchen Rubin 2010
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If you don't like a writer, bad writing will let you imagine the worst and you underrate the thinking.
Why Oh Why Can't Hayek Write Better?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But we should not underrate the hostility that "Phil the Greek" had to cope with.
The Long Route To Windsor Ferdinand Mount 2011
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This lies at the intersection of the fact that reporters underrate the importance of the economy in determining political outcomes, reporters underrate the importance of the Fed in determining economic outcomes, and reporters underrate the importance of the other committee members in determining Fed policy.
Matthew Yglesias » What a Difference a Fed Board Member Makes 2010
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You underrate the firstlings of the heart, the rose and white blossoming, the call upon the senses and the readiness to respond and to fulfil, to give and to take, to be and make happy — the great pride and utter abandon which is young love.
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Thousands of misleading mortgages to easily fooled people hopeful at the chance to own a home WITHOUT Wall Street gambling on them, against them AND improperly insuring them after paying ratings companies to underrate the risk to goose the underwriting = thousands of foreclosures, and the banks, for the most part, go on their merry way owning a lot more property than they previously did.
McConnell signals end to GOP filibuster of Wall Street reform bill 2010
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Thousands of misleading mortgages to easily fooled people hopeful at the chance to own a home WITH Wall Street gambling on them, against them AND improperly insuring them after paying ratings companies to underrate the risk to goose the underwriting = what happened and why we're suffering. haren
McConnell signals end to GOP filibuster of Wall Street reform bill 2010
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First, Michael Ratcliffe in The Times (London): Most British reviews have taken Mr. Vidal with total seriousness, up to a point, but to conclude, as some have, that Myra Breckinridge is a novel about sex as the source of all ultimate power is greatly to underrate its subtlety.
r_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism" r_urell 2010
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February 16th, 2010 at 2: 16 pm and reporters underrate the importance of the other committee members in determining Fed policy.
Matthew Yglesias » What a Difference a Fed Board Member Makes 2010
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