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单词 understate
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understate
verb[T]
uk
/ˌʌn.dəˈsteɪt/us
/ˌʌn.dɚˈsteɪt/
todescribesomething in a way that makes itseemlessimportant,serious,bad, etc. than it really is:
对…轻描淡写；不如实陈述；避重就轻地说
Shebelievestheresearchunderstates theamountofdiscriminationwomensuffer.她认为该研究对妇女所遭受的歧视轻描淡写。
Synonyms
downplay
minimize
Opposites
emphasize
exaggerate
foreground
highlight
overplay
overstate
spotlight
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Exaggerating & playing down
  • alarmist
  • bloviate
  • blowsomethingout of proportionidiom
  • cartoonish
  • catastrophize
  • dramatization
  • dramatize
  • exaggerate
  • minimize
  • OTT
  • over-egg
  • overboard
  • overdramatic
  • overdramatize
  • overembellish
  • overplay
  • overstatement
  • pile
  • proportion
  • stretch the truthidiom
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(Definition ofunderstatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

understate| American Dictionary

understate
verb[T]
us
/ˌʌn·dərˈsteɪt/
to say that theamountorimportanceof something is less than it really is:
Thecompanywasaccusedof understatingpotentialsideeffectsof thedrug.

understatement

noun[C/U]us
/ˌʌn·dərˈsteɪt·mənt/
[C]To say I wasconfusedis an understatement – I hadn’t theslightestideawhat to do.
(Definition ofunderstatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

understate| Business English

understate
verb[T]
ACCOUNTING
uk
/ˌʌndəˈsteɪt/us
to give anamountas less than it really is:
The company'sconservativeaccountingmethodsmeanthatresultsareactuallyunderstated.
understatecosts/profits
to make somethingseemlessseriousorimportantthan it really is:
Officialfigureshugelyunderstate agrowingproblem.

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(Definition ofunderstatefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunderstate

understate
This assumption may in factunderstatethe value of reducing risks somewhat.
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These observations, however, both overstate andunderstatethe impact of inspections on inspected bodies.
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Most start by understating the problem of remuneration, some going as far as volunteering for unpaid work.
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In corporate finance, it understates the profits of highly levered firms.
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The impacts of mortality table and backcasting indicated that our methodology likely understates deferred compensation.
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A chapter on the assessment of dementia emphasises psychological assessment but understates the importance of psychiatric mental-state examination, nursing assessment and social work assessment.
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This organisation has been understated by scholars because, unlike prototypical working class party structures, it is informal and highly decentralised.
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The graph understates the total investment in 1983 since a third of the short-term pain took the form of immediate benefit cuts, not captured here.
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To the extent that this assumption is incorrect, the table willunderstatethe change consequent upon the married women's property acts.
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They alsounderstatethe coherence of societal relations which bind members of different life course stages or of (coeval) generations.
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Because we cannot distinguish between non-affiliates and affiliates, who have a higher labor force participation rate, we probablyunderstatethe labor force attachment of affiliates.
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Such an approach runs the risk of understating those aspects of relationships which change only slowly.
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Thus, statistics that tabulate the hardware of access greatlyunderstatethe number of people who sign on in a week.
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He also understates the extent and energy of industrialization, social change and class- and ethnic-based politics in other southern cities.
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This almost certainly understates their overall environmental performance in the entire period, and thus biases the results against finding a strong effect of neo-corporatism.
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