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misunderestimate

verb

Etymology

From mis- + underestimate, perhaps under influence of misunderstand.

  1. borrowed from aestimātus
  2. inherited from estimat
  3. formed as underestimate — “under- + estimate”
  4. prefixed as misunderestimate — “mis + underestimate”

Definitions

  1. To underestimate mistakenly or wrongly

    To underestimate mistakenly or wrongly; to misestimate with an error on the lower side.

    • . . .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 . . .

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA