英语词汇“understate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

understate

/ʌndəˈsteɪt

verb [with object]

Describe or represent (something) as being smaller or less good or important than it really is: the press have understated the extent of the problem...

That bland description understates the drama and stakes of the investigation.
Not only is there little sign of a cooling of this demand, but there is also a concern that the trade figures - awful as they are - may even be understating the volume of manufactured imports.
To describe e-mail as an enabling technology greatly understates its influence.

Synonyms

play down, downplay, make light of, underrate, rate too low, not do justice to, do an injustice to, underplay, de-emphasize, underemphasize, trivialize, minimize, diminish, downgrade, reduce, lessen, brush aside, gloss over, shrug off

informal soft-pedal, sell short

rare misprize, minify

Derivatives

understater

noun ...

My mom and dad are going through what the understaters of the world would call a ‘rough time.’
Just now as he went out the door, I told my husband of your lack of progression and understater that he is (like all doctors) he got all excited and said ‘That's good!’
To say that the last two weeks have been ‘interesting’ would probably entitle me to some sort of award for being a horrible understater.

单词	understate
释义	understate /ʌndəˈsteɪt / verb [with object] Describe or represent (something) as being smaller or less good or important than it really is: the press have understated the extent of the problem... That bland description understates the drama and stakes of the investigation. Not only is there little sign of a cooling of this demand, but there is also a concern that the trade figures - awful as they are - may even be understating the volume of manufactured imports. To describe e-mail as an enabling technology greatly understates its influence. Synonyms play down, downplay, make light of, underrate, rate too low, not do justice to, do an injustice to, underplay, de-emphasize, underemphasize, trivialize, minimize, diminish, downgrade, reduce, lessen, brush aside, gloss over, shrug off informal soft-pedal, sell short rare misprize, minify Derivatives understater noun ... My mom and dad are going through what the understaters of the world would call a ‘rough time.’ Just now as he went out the door, I told my husband of your lack of progression and understater that he is (like all doctors) he got all excited and said ‘That's good!’ To say that the last two weeks have been ‘interesting’ would probably entitle me to some sort of award for being a horrible understater. Rhymes abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight
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understate

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understater

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