Meanings
present singular third person undersells · participle present underselling · participle past undersold · past undersold
- To sell something for less than its value.
- To put forward an idea, or to market a new product (or oneself), with insufficient enthusiasm or excessive understatement.
don't undersell it
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Near-synonym: sell short
don't undersell yourself
But by inferring sleep, the etymology also undersells Siberia's scope, both real and imagined.
2020, Sophy Roberts, The Lost Pianos of Siberia, page 12Synonyms: sell short · Antonyms: oversell
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo sell goods for a lower price than a competitor.
verbTo put forward an idea, or to market a new product (or oneself), with insufficient enthusiasm or excessive understatement.
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁entér
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂én
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
- Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰí
- Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰér
- Proto-Germanic*under
- Proto-West Germanic*undar
- Old Englishunder-
- Middle Englishunder-
- Englishunder-
- Englishsell
- Englishundersell
Translations
Finnish myydä halvemmalla, myydä alihintaan
- myydä halvemmallato sell for a lower price than a competitor
- myydä alihintaanto sell something for less than its value
- alimyydäto put forward an idea, or to market a new product with insufficient enthusiasm
Polish sprzedawać taniej, sprzedać taniej
- sprzedawać taniejto sell for a lower price than a competitor
- sprzedać taniejto sell for a lower price than a competitor
- sprzedawać po taniościto sell something for less than its value
- sprzedać po taniościto sell something for less than its value
- robić słabą reklamęto put forward an idea, or to market a new product with insufficient enthusiasm
- zrobić słabą reklamęto put forward an idea, or to market a new product with insufficient enthusiasm
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with undersell
Cite this entry
undersell. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undersell
“undersell.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undersell. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undersell,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undersell.
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