underratev.

Brit.

/ˌʌndəˈreɪt/, U.S.

/ˌəndə(r)ˈreɪt/

Etymology: under- prefix¹ 5(a).

†1. transitive. To depreciate, lower. Obsolete. rare.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > disparage or depreciate [verb (transitive)]

littleeOE

low1340

dispraisec1386

minish1402

deroge1427

detractc1449

descryc1450

detrayc1475

dismerit1484

decline1509

vilipend1509

disprize?1518

disable1528

derogatea1530

elevate1541

disparagea1556

detrect1563

debase1565

demerit1576

vilify1586

disgrace1589

detracta1592

besparage1592

enervate1593

obtrect1595

extenuate1601

disvalue1605

disparagon1610

undervalue1611

avile1615

debaucha1616

to cry down1616

debate1622

decry1641

atomize1645

underrate1646

naucify1653

dedignify1654

stuprate1655

de-ample1657

dismagn1657

slur1660

voguec1661

depreciate1666

to run down1671

baffle1674

lacken1674

sneer1706

diminish1712

substract1728

down1780

belittle1789

carbonify1792

to speak scorn of1861

to give one a back-cap1903

minoritize1947

mauvais langue1952

rubbish1953

down-talk1959

marginalize1970

marginate1970

trash1975

neg1987

1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III iii. 90 Dispatching Doctor William Warkam..to under-rate his credit with those Princes.

1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 69 He..under-rates himself below mankinde.

2. To assess or tax (†lower or) too low.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > levy (a tax) [verb (transitive)] > fix amount of tax > low

underrate1641

1641 Rates for Poll-money Such as are under-rated of what they were in the former Subsidies.

1753 Act 26 Geo. II c. 17 §14 As often as they shall find any Person..to have been under-rated.

3. To rate or estimate at too low a value or worth; to undervalue.

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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > misjudge [verb (transitive)] > underestimate or undervalue

to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)c1395

disprize1480

misprize1483

to make light of1526

extenuate1529

to make the worst ofc1530

seclude?1531

to take (also wrest) to the worst1531

deprisec1550

disparagea1556

undermatch1571

embase1577

underbid1593

underprize1600

underpoise1602

undervalue1611

minorize1615

underspeak1635

underthink1646

underrate1650

minify1676

under-measure1682

underpraise1698

sneeze1806

understate1824

disappreciate1828

under-estimatea1850

minimize1866

to play down1869

worsen1885

to sell short1936

downplay1948

underplay1949

lowball1979

minimalize1979

1650 E. Williams Virgo Triumphans 3 Though Mr. Bullocke be pleased to under-rate it [sc. wheat] at..halfe the crowne the bushell.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 272. ⁋1 [She] so over-valued her self and under-rated all her Pretenders.

1774 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. App., in Wks. (1859) I. 126 We do not, however, mean to underrate those aids.

1831 D. E. Williams Life Sir T. Lawrence II. 393 In the following passage, Sir Thomas..greatly under-rates his own talents.

1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 337 [They have] underrated the views of their opponents.

reflexive.1854 R. Whately Misc. Remains (1864) 150 And one condition, I think, of forgiveness is to appear, or at least pretend to underrate yourself.1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters x. 246 Helena's affection prompts her to overrate the man she loves, and to underrate herself.

4. To under-estimate in amount or extent.

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1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 35 He..made an Interest with his Lords Debtors, by under-rating their Accounts.

1802 J. Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Theory 348 If we call it one fourth of the whole surface, its extent is certainly not under-rated.

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen iii. 54 I..had enormously misjudged its distance, and underrated its height.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 358 Nearly every author I have seen, underrates the consumption of wheat in England during the middle ages.

Derivatives

ˌunderˈrating n. and adj.

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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [noun] > underestimation or undervaluing

misprizing1485

disprizing1500

underweening1574

misprize1590

misprision1592

underrating1599

extenuation1607

under-opinion1629

undervaluing1656

extenuating1671

underratement1708

inappreciation1864

minifying1867

lowballing1957

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [adjective] > underestimating or undervaluing

undervaluing1639

ill-judginga1715

underrating1721

unappreciative1840

misappreciative1866

conservative1884

inappreciative1897

meiotic1907

throwaway1942

low-balling1957

1599 S. Daniel Musophilus in Wks. (1602) C ij b Bring not downe the prizes of the minde With vnder-rating of your selues so base.

1721 E. Erskine Wks. (1791) 78/1 It implies low and under-rating thoughts of ourselves.

ˌunderˈratement n.

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