I Underestimated Your Game

The meaning of underestimate is to estimate as being less than the actual size, quantity, or number. How to use underestimate in a sentence. 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. We underestimated the time it would take to get there.

The statistics seriously underestimate the number. To underestimate is to guess that something is worth less or is smaller than it really is. You might underestimate the size of a one-pound hamburger until you realize it's too big to fit in your stomach.

See examples of underestimate used in a sentence. Don't underestimate the difficulties involved in the project. If you underestimate something, you do not realize how large it is or will be.

They underestimated how much work they needed to do. Past simple and past participle of underestimate 2. The city underestimated the cost of the new building.

The number of people in the crowd was underestimated by 5,000.