misunderestimation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An inaccurate underestimation, or an act of misunderestimating; misestimation of the low-side error type.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "We find even in our own agency very significant misunderestimations of the effectiveness."
- "This is not the first time our president has worried about misunderestimation, so it’s fair to regard this not as a slip of the tongue, but as something the president of the United States thinks is a word."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English underestimation English misunderestimation From mis- + underestimation.