understate in English

verb

1

describe or represent (something) as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.

the press has understated the extent of the problem

synonyms: play down, downplay, underrate, underplay, de-emphasize, trivialize, minimize, diminish, downgrade, brush aside, gloss over, put it mildly, soft-pedal, sell short

verb

• play down, downplay, underrate, underplay, de-emphasize, trivialize, minimize, diminish, downgrade, brush aside, gloss over, put it mildly, soft-pedal, sell short
• downplay, minimize

Use "understate" in a sentence

1. Factory managers understate their potential output.

2. The figures probably understate the real unemployment rate.

3. Critics argue that the TPI numbers understate levels of activity.

4. Even these shocking statistics understate the seriousness of the situation.

5. The inflation numbers probably understate the degree of overheating.

6. To call it a bonanza is to understate the matter significantly.

7. The government chooses deliberately to understate the increase in prices.

8. She refuses on principle to understate her income for taxation purposes.

9. Moreover, current estimates probably understate the actual cost of health reform.

10. It would be a mistake to understate the seriousness of the problem.

11. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics uses geometric weighting and hedonics to understate inflation.

12. Membership may understate committed Adherency in the early period, while overstating it in the present

13. This approach seems to have worked well, if I may be allowed to understate the obvious.

14. But, malaria -- even the million deaths a year caused by malaria greatly understate its impact.

15. The rates will somewhat understate the actual level of service as the data do not include:

16. China's state - volunteered export data is notoriously inaccurate, tending to dramatically understate both the quantity and value.

17. To say that its reviews were mixed is to understate the case - the cons far outweighed the pros.

18. These calculations understate the continuing expansion of sales through multiple retailers, as demonstrated by data from Taylor Nelson Sofres.

19. Without wishing to understate what was surely a trying time for some students, I shall make two further points.

20. People will understate how much they value the good in order to reduce their own payments, just as in a private market.

21. Moreover, these monetary measures probably understate the real gains from things such as lower child mortality, safer water,[http://Sentencedict.com] literacy and other social achievements.

22. To say that there is huge room for improvement in the running of this hotel would be to understate the surreally haphazard nature of your operation.

23. Actual military outlays may be higher than what is reported, said an agency official, as some nations tend to understate what they spend for military purposes.

24. Better definition: (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another synonyms: improved, finer, amended antonyms: worse, understate, irritate, abnormality

25. low·Balled, low·bal·ling, low·balls Informal To underestimate or understate (a cost) deliberately: "I get hopping mad every time I see a politician lowballing the cost of his latest healthcare boondoggle" (Megan McArdle)

26. Annie Duke and David Diamond, Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions And You Can Too (Plume, 2005) If you put aside the odd grammar of the book's title and dig into it, the first word that will no doubt come to mind is readable; I am not (to understate the case a great deal) a fan of memoirs, and I still