overestimate
He miscalculated badly when he underestimated the response of the international community to the invasion.他严重失算，低估了国际社会对这次侵略的反应。
They've seriously underestimated the cost of the building project.
The influence of the media should never be underestimated.
She had a tendency to underestimate her son's potential.
It seems that we've seriously underestimated just how long this process will take.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Misunderstanding
cross purposes
disconnection
don't get me wrongidiom
get the wrong end of the stickidiom
get your wires crossedidiom
labour
miscalculate
misconceive
misconceived
misconception
misconstruction
misconstrue
misread
misreading
miss
miss the pointidiom
mistaken
misunderstand
misunderstanding
underestimate

underestimateverb (PERSON)

C1[ T ]
to fail to understand how strong, skilful, intelligent, or determined someone, especially a competitor, is: 低估，轻视（尤指竞争对手）
Never underestimate your opponent!永远不要低估你的对手！

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Estimating value
appraise
appraiser
book value
buying power
cost
costing
de-index
dollar sign
est.
euro
index of leading economic indicators
pricelessly
pricing
put a figure on itidiom
put something at something
quantity surveyor
quote
re-estimate
recommended retail price
underestimate

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Misunderstanding

Examples of underestimated

underestimated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

To improve upon this, a classification with adjusted maximum likelihood probabilities was applied, that enlarged the probability of the underestimated type, and vice versa.
This efficiency did of course also depend on considerable degrees of popular collusion and conformity, the extent of which should not be underestimated.
The state may not dictate everyday life, but its importance should never be underestimated.
The importance of fertility decline for further mortality reduction should not be underestimated, especially after the initial onset of decline in both indicators.
Although forecasted salary growth rates and deferred compensation appear to be underestimated, forecasted salaries demonstrate little bias for lower-paid public employees.
And this power judges have to interpret statutes should not be underestimated.
Nevertheless, these projections of underestimated relocation substantially increase the likelihood that our estimates of the extent of new subjectivities are themselves conservative.
We did not examine partially overlapping events, which underestimated the range of double event amplitudes.
The authors draw attention to the fact that the number of individuals who experience a period of poverty during their lifespan is often underestimated.
The research reported here indicates that the amount by which costs may be underestimated varies according to living arrangements.
Those historians who have underestimated or criticised the religious motivation of feminists need to reconsider their interpretation.
While the resources, capabilities and resilience of older people should not be underestimated, individual resources alone are generally insufficient.
What has been underestimated in this tradition is the transformational capacities people bring to their meanings.
Likewise, because some guests may not have reported their illness, we may have underestimated the attack rate among guests.
We may therefore have overestimated, or underestimated, the effects of urbanization on the incidence of schizophrenia across the life course.
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