undervalue

Definition

To underestimate, or assign too low a value to (something or someone); to have too little regard for.

Etymology

From under- + value.

Example Sentences

• "Near-synonyms: underrate, underappreciate, underween"
• "I write not this with the leaſt intention to undervalue the other parts of Poetry: for Comedy is both excellently inſtructive, and extreamly pleaſant: […]"
• "[…] I undervalu'd all the Enſigns of Authority which belong'd to me, all the Pomp and Splendor of Life which^([sic – meaning with]) which I was ſurrounded."