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What (who) is UNDERSTATE - definition
understate
TYPE OF DECEPTION
Trivializing; Trivialising; Minimization (psychology); Making light of; Make light of; Trivialisation; Makes light of; Understate; Trivialise; Trivialize; Downplaying; Minimalize; Minimalized; Minimalization; Belittle; Belittling; Trivialization (psychology); Make light; Underplaying; Minimalisation; Minimalise; Minimalised; Down play; Down playing; Play down; Playing down
v. a.
State too low.
understate
TYPE OF DECEPTION
Trivializing; Trivialising; Minimization (psychology); Making light of; Make light of; Trivialisation; Makes light of; Understate; Trivialise; Trivialize; Downplaying; Minimalize; Minimalized; Minimalization; Belittle; Belittling; Trivialization (psychology); Make light; Underplaying; Minimalisation; Minimalise; Minimalised; Down play; Down playing; Play down; Playing down
(understates, understating, understated)
If you understate something, you describe it in a way that suggests that it is less important or serious than it really is.
The government chooses deliberately to understate the increase in prices...
? overstate, exaggerate
VERB: V n
Understate
TYPE OF DECEPTION
Trivializing; Trivialising; Minimization (psychology); Making light of; Make light of; Trivialisation; Makes light of; Understate; Trivialise; Trivialize; Downplaying; Minimalize; Minimalized; Minimalization; Belittle; Belittling; Trivialization (psychology); Make light; Underplaying; Minimalisation; Minimalise; Minimalised; Down play; Down playing; Play down; Playing down
·vt To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.
Examples of use of UNDERSTATE
1. These estimates may understate the potential rise.
2. These bleak statistics understate actual rates of unemployment.
3. Some economists say the official data still understate economic activity.
4. However, the new deficit figures substantially understate the expected size of the budget gap.
5. But that may understate the political costs of those entitlement claims.