MEANING
To judge someone or something as less valuable or important than it really is.
Use it for
criticizing an assessment that gives too little worth; identifying overlooked contributions; distinguishing an inadequate valuation from an actual loss of valueIdentifies an assessment below justified worth, not an actual reduction in worth. Academic functions: Analysis / Interpretation.
Words that belong together
- undervalue unpaid work
- undervalue a contribution
- undervalue an asset
On the page
Conventional accounts may undervalue unpaid care when they exclude it from measured output.
The critic argues that earlier readings undervalued the minor characters’ contributions to the narrative.
Nearby words
Opposite meanings
Word forms
- Base
- undervalue
- Past tense
- undervalued
- Past participle
- undervalued
- Present participle
- undervaluing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- undervalue
- Present continuous
- am/is/are undervaluing
- Present perfect
- have/has undervalued
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been undervaluing
- Past
- undervalued
- Past continuous
- was/were undervaluing
- Past perfect
- had undervalued
- Past perfect continuous
- had been undervaluing
- Future
- will undervalue
- Future continuous
- will be undervaluing
- Future perfect
- will have undervalued
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been undervaluing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Transitive. Third-person undervalues; past and past participle undervalued; present participle undervaluing. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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