underrate
underrate
(ʌndəʳreɪt )Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense underrates , present participle underrating , past tense, past participle underrated
verb
If you underrate someone or something, you do not recognize how clever, important, or significant they are.
We women have a lot of good business skills, although we tend to underrate ourselves. [VERB noun]
He underrated the seriousness of William's head injury. [VERB noun]
underrated adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
He is a very underrated poet.
The most important and underrated Alpine wine country is Austria.
