understate

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Verb

understate (understates, present participle understating; past and past participle understated)

1. (transitive) To state (something) with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.
2. (transitive) To state (something) with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony.
3. To state a quantity that is too low.

Synonyms

• (state with lack of emphasis) trivialize

Antonyms

• overstate, exaggerate

Related terms

• understatement

Translations

• German: untertreiben
• Russian: преуменьша́ть
• Spanish: subestimar

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