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動詞

understate (三人称単数 現在形 understates, 現在分詞 understating, 過去形および過去分詞形 understated)

1. (transitive) To state (something) with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.

   To call it a calculated bet understates the risk; it is a Hail Mary pass.

2. (transitive) To state (something) with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony.
3. To state a quantity that is too low.

   The company had been understating its liabilities for years.

   Coordinate term: underestimate

同意語

• (state with lack of emphasis): trivialize

反意語

• overstate, exaggerate

関連する語

• understated (“restrained, unpretentious”)
• understatement

アナグラム

• undertaste