undervalue

An undervaluation; a price or rate below the actual worth.

Noun

  1. An undervaluation; a price or rate below the actual worth.
    • […] he must therefore prove that the contract was not at such an undervalue as would amount to fraud […] - 1938, Law Reporter, volume 158, page 132:

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English value English undervalue From under- + value.

Forms

undervalues

Verb

  1. To underestimate, or assign too low a value to (something or someone); to have too little regard for.
    • Near-synonyms: underrate, underappreciate, underween
    • I write not this with the leaſt intention to undervalue the other parts of Poetry: for Comedy is both excellently inſtructive, and extreamly pleaſant: […] - 1674 (date written), John Dryden, “The Authors Apology for...
    • […] I undervalu'd all the Enſigns of Authority which belong'd to me, all the Pomp and Splendor of Life which^([sic – meaning with]) which I was ſurrounded. - 1706 September 18 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar),...

    Synonyms: underrate underappreciate underween

    Coordinate Terms: underprice

Forms

undervalues undervaluing undervalued

Related

underpriced