understate (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *understate*:
VERB	communication	understate, minimize, minimise, downplay	represent as less significant or important

understate > pronunciation
Sounds	ah'nderstey.t
Rhymes	abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt...

English > *understate*: 1 sense > verb 1, communication
Meaning	represent as less significant or important.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Synonyms	minimize, minimise, downplay
Entailed by	sandbag	downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game / game / game in order to deceive, as in gambling
Narrower	trivialize, trivialise	make trivial or insignificant
Broader	inform	Impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to
Opposite	overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify	To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
Spanish	minimizar
Nouns	understatement	a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said

HyperDic: understate