(prep.) Below or lower, in place or position, with the idea of being covered; lower than; beneath; -- opposed to over; as, he stood under a tree; the carriage is under cover; a cellar extends under the whole house.
(prep.) Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the law; the condition under which one enters upon an office; under the necessity of obeying the laws; under vows of chastity.
(prep.) Denoting relation to something that exceeds in rank or degree, in number, size, weight, age, or the like; in a relation of the less to the greater, of inferiority, or of falling short.
(prep.) Denoting relation to something that comprehends or includes, that represents or designates, that furnishes a cover, pretext, pretense, or the like; as, he betrayed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep.
(prep.) Less specifically, denoting the relation of being subject, of undergoing regard, treatment, or the like; as, a bill under discussion.
(adv.) In a lower, subject, or subordinate condition; in subjection; -- used chiefly in a few idiomatic phrases; as, to bring under, to reduce to subjection; to subdue; to keep under, to keep in subjection; to control; to go under, to be unsuccessful; to fail.
(a.) Lower in position, intensity, rank, or degree; subject; subordinate; -- generally in composition with a noun, and written with or without the hyphen; as, an undercurrent; undertone; underdose; under-garment; underofficer; undersheriff.
Example Sentences:
Underrate
Definition:
(v. t.) To rate too low; to rate below the value; to undervalue.
(n.) A price less than the value; as, to sell a thing at an underrate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, a case of proliferative myositis regarded as semimalignant was underrated by CT.
(2) Also, all predictions erred in the direction of underrating the overall effectiveness of conjoint family therapy.
(3) The health risks of pregnancy, delivery, and labor "may be underrated."
(4) Admittedly Mourinho's side rallied after Yoan Gouffran headed Yohan Cabaye's ferociously whipped in free kick past Petr Cech but Newcastle's Mathieu Debuchy and Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa especially were defending brilliantly and Chelsea came undone on the counter-attack as a fine cross from the underrated Vurnon Anita prefaced Loïc Rémy's wonderful finish.
(5) We’d love a fit Santi Cazorla in exchange, but Gylfi Sigurdsson of Swansea always strikes me as an underrated player.
(6) Barcelona confirm Manchester United target Pedro has asked to leave club Read more The Super Cup is one of the more underrated fixtures in the football calendar but this result might change that.
(7) Although the extant literature yields few unequivocal findings, a number of clear trends can be identified: (i) health care providers and significant others tend, in general, to underestimate patients' quality of life; (ii) health care providers and significant others appear to evaluate patients' quality of life with a comparable degree of (in)accuracy; (iii) health care providers tend to underrate the pain intensity of their patients; (iv) proxy ratings appear to be more accurate when the information sought is concrete and observable; and (v) while significant others' ratings tend to be more accurate when they live in close proximity to the patient, they can also be biased by the caregiving function of the rater.
(8) The average duration of time spent in a standing position was considerably underrated by the workers, while the duration of sitting was strongly overrated when compared with the ratings obtained with the observational method.
(9) However, black Caribbean girls tended to be underrated in both reading and maths, while teachers were prone to underrate Pakistani girls in reading and overrate Bangladeshi boys in maths.
(10) "We are … concerned that the select committee has somewhat underrated the level of proactive work already undertaken by the PCC.
(11) He was a Christ-like hobo in Whistle Down The Wind (1961), a draughtsman forced into a shotgun marriage in A Kind Of Loving (1962), a prissy, poetry-reading Englishman in Zorba The Greek (1964), a Bathsheba-adoring shepherd in John Schlesinger's underrated Far From The Madding Crowd (1967).
(12) Ibrahimovic remains elite European football’s own dazzling kung-fu colossus, a player whose famously moreish highlights reel is backed by the hard yards of goals scored, 12 league titles won at six different clubs and an underrated appetite for the physical battle.
(13) Despite this, much of the medical profession continues to underrate the significance of cholesterol and lipoproteins.
(14) Unrealistic evaluations: individual consequences of BI may be underrated by relatives, more so if no additional injuries illustrate the patient's severe condition.
(15) Although most grading systems correlate well with each other, systems can vary dramatically in patient discrimination, interobserver variability, relative underrating and overrating, properties of nerve function selected, objectivity, and clinical definition.
(16) Krakow is one of the most underrated winter holiday destinations.
(17) Speculative fiction’s commitment to plausible, coherent world-building is often overlooked (or even attacked) by critics , and Le Guin would hardly be the first SF writer to feel irritated that the difficulty of her craft was underrated.
(18) There's local talent in the form of Cal, Christian Martin's underrated follow-up to Shank, which sees his gay hero returning to a contemporary Bristol stricken by economic hardship.
(19) The Trust’s statements seem to underrate its influence in the business and political landscape, and the effect that reinvestment will have on reducing the costs of renewable energy.
(20) One of the best, though underrated, things about the FiveThirtyEight site at the New York Times was its presentation of data through graphics, requiring a largely unheralded team of interactive designers to present the detailed information, plus people to ensure the automated feeds of new polling info was fed in.