Downplay vs Underestimate - What's the difference?
downplay | underestimate |
To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.
To perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth, etc., than what he/she/it actually has.
In transitive terms the difference between downplay and underestimate
is that downplay is to de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential while underestimate is to perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth, etc., than what he/she/it actually has.As a noun underestimate is
an estimate or perception that is too low.downplay
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(en verb)- He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey.