(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.
Undervalue
Definition:
(v. t.) To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate.
(v. t.) To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise.
(n.) A low rate or price; a price less than the real worth; undervaluation.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, while he considers the stock undervalued, the hedge fund boss said the software firm had missed a string of opportunities under Ballmer's "Charlie Brown management", referring to the hapless star of the Peanuts cartoon strip.
(2) In the past, economists had widely viewed the yuan as artificially undervalued , but China during the past year has spent hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign currency reserves to keep the yuan from falling further – prompting the US Treasury to ease its warnings on Beijing’s currency practices.
(3) Is teaching undervalued in universities compared to research?
(4) 2.59pm BST Vince Cable also suggests people may have been carried away by the talk that the Royal Mail is being undervalued.
(5) Hayes said that the jump in Royal Mail's share price this morning showed that the company had been undervalued by a billion pounds, adding: It's outrageous what's happening today.
(6) Donnelly, a former chief of staff to the Liberal minister Kevin Andrews, recently attacked the curriculum for “uncritically promoting diversity” and undervaluing western civilisation and “the significance of Judeo-Christian values to our institutions and way of life”.
(7) It is well known that 'professionals' tend, often for institutional reasons, to play down or undervalue factors which are not defined by their particular expertise.
(8) Lew has charged China with intentionally undervaluing its currency, the yuan, in order to boost exports, leading the state newswire Xinhua to accuse him of making "fact-twisting and politically misleading remarks".
(9) However, several investors argued the deal undervalued the bank, which a year ago was worth more than £5bn.
(10) Studies of benefits and costs of vaccines generally undervalue the net benefits gained by prevention of pain and suffering associated with disease morbidity and mortality.
(11) But the clinical assessment with inclusion of AP was inferior to AP alone as a predictor of metastases, due to undervaluation of the importance of elevated AP in cases of colorectal disease.
(12) We'll soon see which firms meet his standards.... • MPs are very concerned that Royal Mail's property assets are undervalued, and may hold Cable accountable.
(13) Visualization of the various arteries was achieved in a high percentage of cases except for the inferior pancreaticoduodenal arches, due to undervaluation of this vessel by celiac angiography.
(14) However, some coal payments will remain and critics say the policy still undervalues energy saving measures.
(15) If universities are the prestigious eldest, and schools the cosseted youngest, then further education (FE) is the unloved middle child of our education system – undervalued and often neglected.
(16) As a subordinate, second chamber the House of Lords is an effective, vital but undervalued part of our political system.
(17) They don't believe the physician payment reform will bring gains for their undervalued evaluation and management services.
(18) It also claims the terms of the contract are non-negotiable, and undervalue the music of these labels in comparison to Spotify, Rdio, Deezer and other subscription streaming services.
(19) Gadolinium-pentetic acid MRI provides useful information about activity of the disease that cannot be obtained clinically even if the dynamic of the lesions may be undervalued in old plaques.
(20) I suspect he thinks it is undervalued – I suspect he has bought his stake in it for that reason."