Associations to the word «Understate»

Wiktionary

UNDERSTATE, verb. To state something with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.
UNDERSTATE, verb. To state something with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony.
UNDERSTATE, verb. To state a quantity that is too low.

Dictionary definition

UNDERSTATE, verb. Represent as less significant or important.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca