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Undervalue vs Disvalue - What's the difference?

undervalue | disvalue |

As verbs the difference between undervalue and disvalue

is that undervalue is to underestimate, or assign too low a value to while disvalue is to regard something as having little or no value.

As a noun disvalue is

harm, demerit.

undervalue

English

Verb

  • To underestimate, or assign too low a value to.
  • To have too little regard for.
  • * Atterbury
  • In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority.
  • * Dryden
  • I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    disvalue

    English

    Verb

    (disvalu)
  • To regard something as having little or no value
  • To undervalue; to depreciate.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Noun

  • harm, demerit