UNDERSTATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does understate mean? • UNDERSTATE (verb)
The verb UNDERSTATE has 1 sense:
1. represent as less significant or important
Familiarity information: UNDERSTATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• UNDERSTATE (verb)
Meaning:
Represent as less significant or important
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
downplay; minimise; understate; minimize
Hypernyms (to "understate" is one way to...):
inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "understate"):
trivialise; trivialize (make trivial or insignificant)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
overstate (to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth)
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