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misunderestimate (third-person singular simple present misunderestimates, present participle misunderestimating, simple past and past participle misunderestimated)

1. (nonstandard, malapropism or humorous) To underestimate mistakenly or wrongly; to misestimate with an error on the lower side.
   • 1897 April 17, “American Diplomacy on the Bosphorous”, in The Outlook:

     . . .is almost sure to misunderstand and misunderestimate the significance of the question at hand.

   • 1975, Thomas Merton, My Argument With the Gestapo:

     Now in the very earliest years of the eighteenth century it is understandable that, owing to the inevitable, due to our never-to-be-misunderestimated Frederick the Gross . . .

   • 1980, Accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Powerplant: Oversight Hearings:

     And I think after Three Mile Island, not only does the NRC itself understand that it sadly misunderestimated the number of ways in . . .

   • 1992, Adelbert Denaux, John and the Synoptics:

     . . . not only the disciples within their accounts, had seriously misunderestimated the life and teaching of Jesus.

   • 1997 Aug. 29, John Conyers (D-MI), "Delivers Remarks to the Department of Agriculture's Coalition of Minority Employees":

     Whatever happened to Espy? Well, what happened to Espy is what happens to people whether you're a former congressman or not. If you understand the power -- if you misunderestimate the power of the intense bureaucracy in these agencies and departments and federal institutions, you go, they stay.

   • 2003 April 30, Joel Connelly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

     Hence, while anticipating incoming fire, here are several factors for why even the most liberal of Democrats should not "misunderestimate" — my favorite Bushism — our prez.

   • 2004, Bill Sammon, Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, John Kerry, and the Bush Haters,, →ISBN, page 347:

     "I think that anybody who misunderestimates this president is going to have egg on their face in a few years," Rice told me.

   • 2017 December 4, Roslyn Petelin, “The horror and pleasure of misused words: from mispronunciation to malapropisms”, in The Conversation‎, archived from the original on November 12, 2024:

     The most quoted malamanteau is George W. Bush’s “I misunderestimated”. Others that have evoked smirks have been “miscommunicado” (from “miscommunicate” and “incommunicado”), “insinuendo” (from “innuendo” and “insinuation”), and “squirmish” (“squirm” and “skirmish”).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:misunderestimate.

使用する際の注意点

• As with the derivative misunderestimation, this is now usually, though not always, employed in jocular reference to former US President George W. Bush.

同意語

• underapproximate, underestimate

上位語

• misestimate

派生語

• misunderestimation