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misunderstatement

noun

Etymology

From mis- + understatement.

  1. derived from stātus
  2. derived from estat
  3. inherited from stat
  4. suffixed as statement — “state + ment”
  5. prefixed as understatement — “under + statement”
  6. prefixed as misunderstatement — “mis + understatement”

Definitions

  1. An understatement made by mistake or that is so extremely understated as to be misleading.

    • To say that the moratorium imposed by the present administration in Washington has had a disasstrous effect on meeting the housing needs of the elderly would be a gross misunderstatement.
    • The Fed has considerable resources. In some ways, I think this is a gross misunderstatement because the Fed really, literally, has unlimited resources.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misunderstatement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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