Underrate

Word UNDERRATE
Character 9
Hyphenation un der rate un der rate
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Underrate"

What do we mean by underrate?

To rate too low; underestimate. transitive verb

A price less than the true value. noun

Being below the standard; inferior.

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

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

A price less than the value. noun

To underestimate; to make too low a rate or estimate verb

A price less than the value. noun

Make too low an estimate of verb

A price less than the value.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Underrate

The word "underrate" in example sentences

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 (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But we should not underrate the hostility that "Phil the Greek" had to cope with. ❋ Ferdinand Mount (2011)

One of the big mistakes I think people in Washington make is to vastly overrate the importance of political changes and underrate the importance of technological changes. ❋ Ezra Klein (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you don't like a writer, bad writing will let you imagine the worst and you underrate the thinking. ❋ Unknown (2009)

White Cube Mason's Yard, SW1, to 9 JulSSTo state that Tadasu Takamine is a provocative artist is to underrate the profound sensitivity of the work. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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 ❋ Unknown (2010)

People underrate him, which surely suggests for him a future decisive role. ❋ Tom Shippey (2011)

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 (2010)

February 16th, 2010 at 2: 16 pm and reporters underrate the importance of the other committee members in determining Fed policy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I've often thought that most comics people except for maybe Will Eisner and Scott McCloud underrate how much carefully-chosen types of dialect can contribute to comics' visual panoplies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, to my surprise, Somerby -- who is obsessed by negative media scripts, and who would never underrate the media's potential for viciousness -- makes a startling assumption. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some canvases are naturally larger than others, and critics who like me have a built-in bias in favor of careful craftsmanship must always be on guard lest it cause them to underrate a masterpiece whose corners aren ' t tucked in. ❋ Terry Teachout (2010)

Don't underrate Joe Lieberman, that's the lesson here. ❋ Chris Weigant (2010)

To say we now act as if we need a war may underrate the syndrome. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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