misesteem

verb

Definition of misesteemnext
as in to underestimate

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  1. underestimate
  2. undervalue
  3. overestimate
  4. underrate
Verb
  • My husband, a bookseller, often notes that most books are bad, and this may be doubly true for children’s books, whose brevity leads foolhardy would-be authors to underestimate the difficulty of their task.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Given past polling errors in Texas that underestimated the Republican vote, there's a healthy skepticism that Democrat James Talarico's margin of error lead in polling averages is enough to win.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of underestimate
Verb
  • Lacy has heard plenty of kvetching from breeders who believe their horses to be undervalued in the book, and thereby potentially undervalued in the sale.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The price hikes were not the result of Evernote undervaluing longtime customers.
    — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of undervalue
Verb
  • And that failure to talk can lead people to overestimate their political differences.
    — Frank Langfitt, NPR, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The model could have overestimated the amount of unstable ISM if cold and warm sections were too close together for the model to tell them apart, McKee said.
    — Perri Thaler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of overestimate
Verb
  • Some of our strongest researchers would have been easy to underrate in a less structured process.
    — Shawn Zhang, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Although my favorite is the classic cookie dough, Tuffy’s Toffee is underrated.
    — Natalie Hoy, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of underrate
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