Dictionary

undervalue en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈvælju/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English value English undervalue From under- + value.

Meanings

1. An undervaluation; a price or rate below the actual worth.
   • […] he must therefore prove that the contract was not at such an undervalue as would amount to fraud […] 1938, Law Reporter, volume 158, page 132:

Forms

undervalue en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈvælju/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English value English undervalue From under- + value.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To underestimate, or assign too low a value to (something or someone); to have too little regard for.
   • Near-synonyms: underrate, underappreciate, underween
   • […] 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. 1706 September 18 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Sermon Preach’d in the Guild-Hall Chapel, London, Sept. 28. 1706. Being the Day of the Election of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, page 403:
   • I write not this with the leaſt intention to undervalue the other parts of Poetry: for Comedy is both excellently inſtructive, and extreamly pleaſant: […] 1674 (date written), John Dryden, “The Authors Apology for Heroique Poetry; and Poetique Licence”, in The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: An Opera. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1677, →OCLC, page 23:

Forms

Coordinates

underprice

Deriveds

undervaluingly · undervaluer · undervaluement

Relateds

underpriced

Synonyms

underween · underrate · underappreciate

Translations (9)

cs podcenit (to underestimate) · ro subestima (to underestimate) · de unterbewerten (to underestimate) · sv undervärdera (to underestimate) · gv meephrios (to underestimate) · de unterschätzen (to underestimate) · bg подценявам (to underestimate) · cs podhodnotit (to underestimate) · ro subevalua (to underestimate)