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Underrate vs Belittle - What's the difference?

underrate | belittle |

As verbs the difference between underrate and belittle

is that underrate is to underestimate; to make too low a rate or estimate while belittle is to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.

As a noun underrate

is a price less than the value.

underrate

English

Verb

(underrat)
  • to underestimate; to make too low a rate or estimate

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A price less than the value.
    • to sell a thing at an underrate

    Anagrams

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    belittle

    English

    Verb

    (belittl)
  • To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006
    • , author=Mark Steyn , title=America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It , chapter=9 , isbn=0895260786 , page=201 , passage=Under the rules as understood by the New York Times'', the West is free to mock and belittle''' its Judeo-Christian inheritance, and, likewise, the Muslim world is free to mock and ' belittle the West's Judeo-Christian inheritance.}}

    Related terms

    * belittlement

    See also

    * disparage * denigrate * vilipend