understating
present participle ofunderstate
| 单词 | understating |
| 释义 | understating present participle ofunderstate understate verb[T] uk/ˌʌn.dəˈsteɪt/us/ˌʌn.dɚˈsteɪt/todescribesomething in a way that makes itseemlessimportant,serious,bad, etc. than it really is: Shebelievestheresearchunderstates theamountofdiscriminationwomensuffer. Synonyms downplay minimize Opposites emphasize exaggerate foreground highlight overplay overstate spotlight Exaggerating & playing down
Examplesofunderstatingunderstating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Most start byunderstatingthe problem of remuneration, some going as far as volunteering for unpaid work. From theCambridge English Corpus Such an approach runs the risk ofunderstatingthose aspects of relationships which change only slowly. From theCambridge English Corpus The model's spectrum largely overstates the contribution of low and medium frequencies, while largelyunderstatingthe contribution of the high frequencies. From theCambridge English Corpus Since the relationship is slightly concave, the errors introduced byunderstatingpersistence are smaller than those introduced by overstating persistence. From theCambridge English Corpus The biases that heuristics induce are not constant errors - the type of error that a friendly scale makes inunderstatingall weights. From theCambridge English Corpus Understatingreal wage growth would tend to overstate replacement rates but understate final retirement wealth. From theCambridge English Corpus The latter already points, however, to a betterunderstatingof why geriatricians do much of what they do. From theCambridge English Corpus Interestingly, these variations virtually prevent us from overstating the policy effects in the north andunderstatingthem in the south. From theCambridge English Corpus Unfortunately, data are not available to check the consistency of thisunderstatingamong older women. From theCambridge English Corpus This leads to anunderstatingof the importance of the trade for the economy as a whole. From theCambridge English Corpus Maghen may beunderstatingthe role of bodily fluids and gases in causing the preclusion. From theCambridge English Corpus That also took place during the month and, therefore, the figure of £12 million isunderstatingthe real improvement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Our effort is not to be first with the news, but to be scrupulously accurate even at the risk ofunderstating. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Only one was due tounderstatingthe load, which was a consignment from abroad. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I was speaking from the latest available statistics and wasunderstatingrather than overstating the position. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 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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