underappreciated

American  

[uhn-der-uh-pree-shee-ay-tid] / ˌʌn dər əˈpri ʃiˌeɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. not sufficiently valued or recognized.

   Knowing how to grow your own food is an underappreciated but incredibly important skill.

   I really think the seriousness of this problem is underappreciated.

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Etymology

Origin of underappreciated

First recorded in 1895–1900; under- ( def. ) + appreciated ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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underappreciated

Now located in Marcel Breuer’s iconic New York building, the art fair continues to champion the underappreciated and overlooked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The discovery added a previously underappreciated process to scientists' understanding of chemistry in the troposphere, the lowest major layer of Earth's atmosphere where most weather occurs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

The OpenAI agents are built for different purposes, but an underappreciated factor in their going hacker mode is that the company’s own staffers were negligent and careless in monitoring their own experiments.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

“Tesla Semi represents an underappreciated driver of earnings growth through 2040,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

“I like to think I chose an appropriate Patron Historic. Like many scientists, Michael Faraday was underappreciated in his life, yet our world would not be what it is without him.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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