underexaggerate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To understate.
Example Sentences
- "Academics tend to be very sceptical of oil forecasts made by the major oil companies as they underexaggerate the probable amounts of oil in the world."
- "Without the services of a qualified polygrapher, the defendant will almost always underexaggerate or lie about his or others' involvement in the conspiracy."
Etymology
From under- + exaggerate, rather illogically, since this might be expected to mean to exaggerate but insufficiently.