underrated

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

Examples of underrated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Hathaway's Oscars style is always good, but this one's particularly underrated. —Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 14 Mar. 2026

Roles in films like Blood Diamond and Revolutionary Road don’t do it, nor does DiCaprio’s first pairing with Martin Scorsese, the good but underrated Shutter Island. —Joe Reid, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026

Portillo's Levitt said Portillo's is an underrated burger option. —Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 13 Mar. 2026

Adebayo’s overall improvement as a perimeter player has gone underrated this year within Miami’s new five-out offensive scheme. —Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1778, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for underrated

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