undervalue

present singular third person undervalues · participle present undervaluing · participle past undervalued · past undervalued

1. transitiveTo underestimate, or assign too low a value to (something or someone); to have too little regard for.

   Near-synonyms: underrate, underappreciate, underween

   2 more examples

   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 Heroique Poetry; and Poetique Licence”, in The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: An Opera. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1677, →OCLC, page 23

   […] 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), Francis Atterbury, “A Sermon Preach’d in the Guild-Hall Chapel, London, Sept. 28. 1706. Being the Day of the Election of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, page 403

   Synonyms: underrate, underappreciate, underween

plural undervalues

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