understates
Meaning of understates
verb
- To state (something) with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.
- To state (something) with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony.
- To state a quantity that is too low.
Information about understates
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of understates is: understate.
- Languages in which understates is used:
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Hyphenation of understates
un-der-states
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- understates is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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