Undervalue

Quick meaning: Undervalue is a verb meaning (transitive) To underestimate, or assign too low a value to (something or someone); to have too little regard for.

Meaning

(transitive) To underestimate, or assign too low a value to (something or someone); to have too little regard for.

More Meanings

1. An undervaluation; a price or rate below the actual worth.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: underrate, underappreciate, underween

[…] he must therefore prove that the contract was not at such an undervalue as would amount to fraud […]

I write not this with the leaſt intention to undervalue the other parts of Poetry: for Comedy is both excellently inſtructive, and extreamly pleaſant: […]

[…] I undervalu'd all the Enſigns of Authority which belong'd to me, all the Pomp and Splendor of Life which^([sic – meaning with]) which I was ſurrounded.

Word Forms

• undervalues
• undervaluing
• undervalued

Synonyms for undervalue

Depending on context, synonyms include underrate, underappreciate, underween, depreciate, devalue, devaluate.

Antonyms for undervalue

Common opposites include appreciate, overvalue, overestimate, revalue.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include underestimate, depreciate, devaluate, devalue, underrate, understate.

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