undersay
/ʌndə(ɹ)ˈseɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To understate.
Example Sentences
- "They say, they con to heaven the highway; But by my soul I dare undersay, They never set foot on that same troad, But balke their right way, and strayen abroad."
- "My words undersay it, of course; I mean something rarer than critical, something better than ethical, and perhaps I had better retreat upon such a word as spiritual."
- "How to undersay things when so many oversay them is one thing learnt."
- "Try not to overqualify or undersay what you have to say."
Etymology
From under- + say.