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 underestimating

underestimating

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

Note, that this cautious measure may lead to underestimating the errors in the corpora.
Treating independents in this fashion leads to underestimating volatility.
This has the effect of underestimating the tenure of single-party governments as compared to that of parties in coalitions.
Most of these well-intended ventures were unsuccessful, the enthusiasts underestimating housing's high cost to produce and maintain it, and sometimes misinterpreting demand by the poor.
It is difficult to assess how many procedures this may represent, and we may be underestimating both the rate of ablation and combined procedure rates.
Could we be substantially underestimating the benefits of screening?
This ensures that a convex underestimating inequality results.
The 'being' modest consists in simply underestimating self-worth.
To reduce the chance of underestimating insect predation as explained above, we applied exclusion and non-exclusion treatments to each station.
Grossly underestimating the extent of plant interactions can have important consequences for understanding maintenance of diversity and community structure in tropical forests.
The potentially high costs of permanent sequelae, for example, have often not been considered, thereby seriously underestimating cost savings from avoided cases of meningococcal disease.
All these factors probably contributed to underestimating the number of neurons whose nonlinear interactions lacked a peak at the origin.
In any case there is a risk in underestimating the -exibility of inherited systems.
Omitting this may lead to underestimating the magnitude and consequences of the marine-impact event.
First, the authors are probably underestimating the incidence of hallucinations in the normal population.
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