underrate
verb (used with object)
to rate or evaluate too low; underestimate.
underrates
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present tense formof underrate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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But for everyday driving, Mr. Miller underrates the rate of improvement in AI, and the extent to which the problems he identifies are amenable to machine learning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
Whenever anybody asks me about Balanchine, I think of what Jack Nicholson said about Stanley Kubrick: “Everyone pretty much acknowledges him as The Man, and I still think that underrates him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
Peterson finished with 16 yards on 11 carries, a line that obviously doesn’t stand out, but that somewhat underrates his contribution.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
But it never underrates the obligation to try.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2018
I can forgive, though I must needs deplore, The noble pride which underrates itself; It robs thee of the happiness of life.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke
