understate

/ʌndəˈsteɪt/

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Fiil çekimi düzenli

Yalın (V1)understate
3. tekil (-s)understates
-ingunderstating
Past (V2)understated
Participle (V3)understated

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Çeviriler

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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

  1. fiil To state (something) with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.

    “To call this decision a calculated bet understates the risk; it is a Hail Mary pass.”

  2. fiil To state (something) with an intentional lack of emphasis, in order to express irony.

    “She is the queen of understatement: she understated her critique masterfully.”

  3. fiil To state a quantity that is too low.

    “The company had been understating its liabilities for years.”

Eş anlamlılar

downplay trivialize bagatellize banalize belittle cut down de-emphasize denigrate degrade deprecate derogate disparage dispraise lilliputianize make little of make nothing of minimize play down set at nought superficialize

Zıt anlamlılar

overstate exaggerate big up cut it fat hyperbolize overcharge overapproximate

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