Underrate

Definition: Underrate

Underrate

Verb

1. Make too low an estimate of; "he underestimated the cost of the renovation"; "Don't underestimate the danger of such a raft trip on this river".

Date "underrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1798. (references)

Synonym: Underrate

Synonym: underestimate (v). (additional references)

Antonym: overestimate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Underestimation	Verb: underrate, underestimate, undervalue, underreckon; depreciate; disparage; (detract); not do justice to; misprize, disprize; ridicule; slight; (despise); neglect; slur over.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Underrate

English words defined with "underrate": Underreckon. (references)

Author	Date	Quotation
Winston S. Churchill	1946	There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace." Let no man underrate the abiding power of the British Empire and Common-wealth. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Underrate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 82.35% of the time. "Underrate" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	82.35%	14	93,893
Lexical Verb (base form)	17.65%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	17	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "underrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nënvlerësoj (depreciate, misprise, misprize, underestimate, underprice, undervalue), nënvleftësoj (belittle, disregard, underestimate, undervalue), nënçmoj (cry down, disdain, disparage, misprise, misprize, underestimate, undervalue). (various references)

Arabic		‏بخس قدرة (underestimate). (various references)

Bulgarian		недооценявам (misjudge, misprise, misprize, run down, underestimate, undervalue), подценявам (belittle, cheapen, depreciate, derogate, lessen, misjudge, underprise, understate, undervalue). (various references)

Chinese		低估 (minimisation, minimization, underestimate, underestimation, underrating, undervalue). (various references)

Czech		podcenit (underestimate, underprice, undervalue), nízko odhadnout. (various references)

Farsi		چیزی راکمترازقیمت واقعی نرخ گذاشتن , ناچیزشمردن (Slight), دست کم گرفتن (Minimize, Underestimate, Understate, Understatement). (various references)

Finnish		ali (underestimate). (various references)

French		sous-estimer (underestimate, undervalue), méconnaître. (various references)

German		unterschätzen (underestimate, undervalue), unterbewerten (undervalue). (various references)

Greek		υποτιμώ (belittle, debase, deflate, depreciate, depredate, derogate, devalue, disparage, minimize, misjudge, underestimate, understate, undervalue). (various references)

Hebrew		למעט בערכו (depreciate, undervalue), לזלזל בערכו (belittle, cheapen, disparage, hold cheap, slight someone, think nothing of, underestimate), לזלזל (decry, degrade, despise, disparage, disregard, look down on, slight, talk down). (various references)

Hungarian		alábecsül (to extenuate, to underestimate, to underrate, underestimate, underprize, undervalue). (various references)

Indonesian		meremehkan (disparage, misprize, underestimate). (various references)

Italian		sottostimare (to underestimate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		高�'括る (to make light of, to underrate), 見縊る (to belittle, to despise, to look down on, to underrate), 見くびる (to belittle, to despise, to look down on, to underrate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たか�'くくる (to make light of, to underrate), みくびる (to belittle, to despise, to look down on, to underrate). (various references)

Manx		soiaghey beg jeh (despise, misprize, set a low value on, under-estimate, undervalue), coontey fo'n leagh, coontey fo'n 'eeuid (undervalue). (various references)

Pig Latin		errateunday

Portuguese		subestimar (minimized, underestimate, undervalue), menosprezar (contemn, crab, despise, lesser, littleness, look for, misprize, mispronounce, mock, scorn, underestimate, undervalue). (various references)

Romanian		subevalua (undervalue), subaprecia (disparage, dispraise, underestimate, undervalue). (various references)

Russian		недооценивать (disparage, misjudge, misprise, misprize, underestimate, underprize, undervalue). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nipodaštavati (run down, scorn, slur). (various references)

Spanish		subestimar (underestimate, understate, undervalue). (various references)

Swedish		undervärdera (underestimate, undervalue), underskatta (misprize, underestimate, undervalue). (various references)

Turkish		yeterince değer vermemek, küçümsemek (belittle, contemn, defy, depreciate, despise, disdain, flout, look down on, make light of, minimize, pooh pooh, scorn, sneer, underestimate, undervalue), küçük görmek (be disdainful of, belittle, disparage, look down, look down on, look down one's nose at, misprize, patronize, underestimate, upstage). (various references)

Ukrainian		недооцінювати (disparage, lessen, misjudge, misprise, misprize, overlook, underestimate, undervalue). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "underrate": underrated, underrates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Underrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Andreatta, Bundersrat, Dunderdale, underrage, ungerade. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "underrate" (pronounced underrā"t)
4	-er r ā" t	overrate.
3	-r ā" t	berate, crate, desecrate, freight, grate, great, irate, prorate, rate, straight, Strait, trait.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: renatured.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-n-r-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: denature, renature, returned, underate, undereat.
	-2 letters: daunter, denture, natured, retread, retuned, tenured, terrane, treader, unrated, untread.
	-3 letters: anteed, ardent, darner, darter, dearer, derate, earned, earner, endear, endure, entera, enured, errand, errant, nature, neared, nearer, neater, neuter, ranted, ranter, reader, reared, redate, redear, reearn, render, rented, renter, reread, retard, retear, retune, return, tarred, teared.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-n-r-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: adventurer, enraptured, underrated, underrates, underreact, undertaker, underwater.
	+2 letters: adventurers, remunerated, unchartered, underreacts, undertakers, untraversed.
	+3 letters: countertrade, peradventure, ultrarefined, uncorrelated, undergarment, underreacted, unrestrained.
	+4 letters: counterargued, counterraided, countertrades, peradventures, superordinate, undergarments, undergraduate, underreacting, understrapper.
	+5 letters: countercharged, countermarched, counterrallied, headquartering, remanufactured, undergraduates, undersaturated, undersecretary, understrappers, unrefrigerated, unrestrainedly.
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