UNDERRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does underrate mean? 

• UNDERRATE (verb)
  The verb UNDERRATE has 1 sense:

1. make too low an estimate of

  Familiarity information: UNDERRATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDERRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they underrate    ... he / she / it underrates   
Past simple: underrated   
Past participle: underrated   
-ing form: underrating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make too low an estimate of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

underestimate; underrate

Context example:

Don't underestimate the danger of such a raft trip on this river

Hypernyms (to "underrate" is one way to...):

misjudge (judge incorrectly)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "underrate"):

sell short (underestimate the real value or ability of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

underrating (an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value)

 Context examples 

I can suppose, however, that I may have underrated him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He congratulated him warmly, and confessed that he had always underrated his intelligence.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As usual, I had underrated the amount of work involved in this portion of the task, and two long days were necessary to complete it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

‘Thank you very much,’ said he; ‘I fear that I underrated the difficulty of the task.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And even if I have not underrated him hitherto, he may yet turn out well.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

To my inexperience this appeared to bring the whole matter to a conclusion, but I had underrated the foresight of those who arrange these affairs, and also the advantages which made Crawley Down so favourite a rendezvous.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)