Understate

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  • transitive verb. To state with less completeness or truth than seems warranted by the facts.
  • transitive verb. To express with restraint or lack of emphasis, especially ironically or for rhetorical effect.
  • transitive verb. To state (a quantity, for example) that is too low.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To state or represent less strongly than the truth will admit; state too low: as, to understate an evil.
  • To say less than the full truth.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to state something with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.
  • verb. to state something with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony.
  • verb. to state a quantity that is too low.
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  • verb. represent as less significant or important
    • Word Usage
    "You spend your life railing against central economic planning, and you need a conspiracy theory to explain why an economic projection was wrong? should be "understate," or "underestimate.""
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    overstate  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    inform  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    trivialise  trivialize  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    black-suited  cat-and-mouse  dark-lensed  demand-pull  double  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    belie  burlesque  camouflage  caricature  color  
    verb-form
    understated  understates  understating  
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