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Undervalued vs Underrated - What's the difference?

undervalued | underrated |

As adjectives the difference between undervalued and underrated

is that undervalued is assigned an in appropriately low value while underrated is not given enough recognition for its quality.

As verbs the difference between undervalued and underrated

is that undervalued is past tense of undervalue while underrated is past tense of underrate.

undervalued

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Assigned an in appropriately low value.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (undervalue)

    • underrated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not given enough recognition for its quality
  • * 2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
    • Koeman identified Southampton’s third as their finest goal of the game. Jack Cork, the most underrated player at a much-lauded club, swept the ball out wide to Tadic, who waited for Cork to run to the back post before chipping the ball across to him to slam in a deserved goal from close range, despite an attempted block by Vito Mannone.

    Antonyms

    * overrated

    Verb

    (head)
  • (underrate)