Misestimate

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An erroneous estimate.

    "This was due not to pro-German sympathies but to a plain misestimate (not confined to him) of the real relative strengths of the various political forces."

Verb
  1. 1
    To estimate erroneously.

    "[W]e shall infallibly bestow a disproportionate attention upon those which our theory takes into account, while we mis-estimate the rest, and probably underrate their importance."

  2. 2
    calculate incorrectly wordnet
  3. 3
    to reckon wrongly wordnet

Synonyms

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belittledeprecatedepreciatedisparageerrmake light of

Example

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"[W]e shall infallibly bestow a disproportionate attention upon those which our theory takes into account, while we mis-estimate the rest, and probably underrate their importance."

Etymology

From mis- + estimate.

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