underrated

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adjective

un·​der·​rat·​ed ˌən-dər-ˈrā-təd 

ˌən-də-

: rated or valued too low

an underrated movie/book

… Francis, surely the most underrated player in the league, led the improbable comeback.

—E. M. Swift

Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot, is a very underrated 1976 comedy-thriller about a phony psychic's accidental involvement with jewel thieves.

—Joe Leydon

underrated

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past tense and past participle of underrate

Examples of underrated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Amazing wrestler, but his personality and his comedic timing and his charisma is massively underrated. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026

Mushrooms are an underrated ingredient in Indian cooking, and this creamy masala puts the earthy veg front and center. — Rachel Gurjar, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Nov. 2026

Clothing is something that’s both important and underrated in live-action, too. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2026

The analytic-minded architect who assembled so much underrated talent left for the biggest market in baseball. — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1778, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for underrated

• abdicated
• abrogated
• acclimated
• activated
• actuated
• adumbrated
• advocated
• aggravated
• aggregated
• agitated
• allocated
• alternated