misunderestimate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To underestimate mistakenly or wrongly; to misestimate with an error on the lower side.
Example Sentences
- ". . .is almost sure to misunderstand and misunderestimate the significance of the question at hand."
- "Now in the very earliest years of the eighteenth century it is understandable that, owing to the inevitable, due to our never-to-be-misunderestimated Frederick the Gross . . ."
- "And I think after Three Mile Island, not only does the NRC itself understand that it sadly misunderestimated the number of ways in . . ."
- ". . . not only the disciples within their accounts, had seriously misunderestimated the life and teaching of Jesus."
- "Whatever happened to Espy? Well, what happened to Espy is what happens to people whether you're a former congressman or not. If you understand the power -- if you misunderestimate the power of the intense bureaucracy in these agencies and departments and federal institutions, you go, they stay."
- "Hence, while anticipating incoming fire, here are several factors for why even the most liberal of Democrats should not "misunderestimate" — my favorite Bushism — our prez."