undervalue
/ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈvælju/
undervalue verb: to underestimate, or assign too low a value to (something or someone); to have too little regard for.
Verb
undervalue (third-person singular simple present undervalues, present participle undervaluing, simple past and past participle undervalued)
- 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 Heroique Poetry; and Poetique Licence”, in The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: An Opera. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry...
- Synonyms:
- underrate, underappreciate, underween
Noun
undervalue (plural undervalues)
- 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
undervalue meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
undervalue in Urdu
- کم آنکنا, کم قدری, کم قیمت
undervalue in Malayalam
- underestimate, underrate, play down
- വില കുറച്ചുകാണുക, കുറഞ്ഞ വില മതിക്കുക, വില കുറച്ചുമതിക്കുക, താഴ്ത്തിപ്പറയുക, വിലകുറച്ചുനിരൂപിക്കുക, ന്യൂനമൂല്യം കല്പിക്കുക
Synonyms of undervalue
Forms of undervalue
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | undervalues |
| present participle | undervaluing |
| past participle | undervalued |
| past | undervalued |
| Noun | |
| plural | undervalues |
Origin of undervalue
From under- + value.
Words formed from undervalue
Questions about undervalue
- What does undervalue mean?
- Undervalue means to underestimate, or assign too low a value to (something or someone); to have too little regard for.
- What is undervalue in Urdu?
- Undervalue in Urdu is کم آنکنا, کم قدری, کم قیمت. See Undervalue meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is undervalue?
- Undervalue can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce undervalue?
- Undervalue is pronounced /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈvælju/.
- What is the past tense of undervalue?
- The past tense of undervalue is undervalued.
Words near undervalue in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: undervalue (page history and authors); undervalue (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); undervalue (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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