underestimating
present participle ofunderestimate
| 单词 | underestimating |
| 释义 | underestimating present participle ofunderestimate underestimate verb uk/ˌʌn.dəˈres.tɪ.meɪt/us/ˌʌn.dɚˈes.tə.meɪt/underestimateverb(AMOUNT)B2[IorT] tofailtoguessorunderstandtherealcost,size,difficulty, etc. of something: Originally thecontractorgave me apriceof €2,000, but now they say they underestimated and it's going to be at least €3,000. Don't underestimate thedifficultiesof getting bothpartiesto theconferencetable. Opposite overestimate
Misunderstanding
underestimateverb(PERSON)C1[T] tofailtounderstandhowstrong,skilful,intelligent, ordeterminedsomeone,especiallyacompetitor, is: Never underestimateyouropponent! Estimating value
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Misunderstanding Examplesofunderestimatingunderestimating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Note, that this cautious measure may lead tounderestimatingthe errors in the corpora. From theCambridge English Corpus Treating independents in this fashion leads tounderestimatingvolatility. From theCambridge English Corpus This has the effect ofunderestimatingthe tenure of single-party governments as compared to that of parties in coalitions. From theCambridge English Corpus Most of these well-intended ventures were unsuccessful, the enthusiastsunderestimatinghousing's high cost to produce and maintain it, and sometimes misinterpreting demand by the poor. From theCambridge English Corpus It is difficult to assess how many procedures this may represent, and we may beunderestimatingboth the rate of ablation and combined procedure rates. From theCambridge English Corpus Could we be substantiallyunderestimatingthe benefits of screening? From theCambridge English Corpus This ensures that a convexunderestimatinginequality results. From theCambridge English Corpus The 'being' modest consists in simplyunderestimatingself-worth. From theCambridge English Corpus To reduce the chance ofunderestimatinginsect predation as explained above, we applied exclusion and non-exclusion treatments to each station. From theCambridge English Corpus Grosslyunderestimatingthe extent of plant interactions can have important consequences for understanding maintenance of diversity and community structure in tropical forests. From theCambridge English Corpus The potentially high costs of permanent sequelae, for example, have often not been considered, thereby seriouslyunderestimatingcost savings from avoided cases of meningococcal disease. From theCambridge English Corpus All these factors probably contributed tounderestimatingthe number of neurons whose nonlinear interactions lacked a peak at the origin. From theCambridge English Corpus In any case there is a risk inunderestimatingthe -exibility of inherited systems. From theCambridge English Corpus Omitting this may lead tounderestimatingthe magnitude and consequences of the marine-impact event. From theCambridge English Corpus First, the authors are probablyunderestimatingthe incidence of hallucinations in the normal population. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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