Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to misunderestimate
Participle: misunderestimated
Gerund: misunderestimating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | misunderestimate |
| you | misunderestimate |
| he;she;it | misunderestimates |
| we | misunderestimate |
| you | misunderestimate |
| they | misunderestimate |
Perfect
| I | have misunderestimated |
| you | have misunderestimated |
| he;she;it | has misunderestimated |
| we | have misunderestimated |
| you | have misunderestimated |
| they | have misunderestimated |
Past
| I | misunderestimated |
| you | misunderestimated |
| he;she;it | misunderestimated |
| we | misunderestimated |
| you | misunderestimated |
| they | misunderestimated |
Pluperfect
| I | had misunderestimated |
| you | had misunderestimated |
| he;she;it | had misunderestimated |
| we | had misunderestimated |
| you | had misunderestimated |
| they | had misunderestimated |
Future
| I | will misunderestimate |
| you | will misunderestimate |
| he;she;it | will misunderestimate |
| we | will misunderestimate |
| you | will misunderestimate |
| they | will misunderestimate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have misunderestimated |
| you | will have misunderestimated |
| he;she;it | will have misunderestimated |
| we | will have misunderestimated |
| you | will have misunderestimated |
| they | will have misunderestimated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | misunderestimate |
| you | misunderestimate |
| he;she;it | misunderestimate |
| we | misunderestimate |
| you | misunderestimate |
| they | misunderestimate |
Perfect
| I | have misunderestimated |
| you | have misunderestimated |
| he;she;it | have misunderestimated |
| we | have misunderestimated |
| you | have misunderestimated |
| they | have misunderestimated |
Imperfect
| I | misunderestimated |
| you | misunderestimated |
| he;she;it | misunderestimated |
| we | misunderestimated |
| you | misunderestimated |
| they | misunderestimated |
Pluperfect
| I | had misunderestimated |
| you | had misunderestimated |
| he;she;it | had misunderestimated |
| we | had misunderestimated |
| you | had misunderestimated |
| they | had misunderestimated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would misunderestimate |
| you | would misunderestimate |
| he;she;it | would misunderestimate |
| we | would misunderestimate |
| you | would misunderestimate |
| they | would misunderestimate |
Perfect
| I | would have misunderestimated |
| you | would have misunderestimated |
| he;she;it | would have misunderestimated |
| we | would have misunderestimated |
| you | would have misunderestimated |
| they | would have misunderestimated |
Imperative
| you | misunderestimate |
| we | Let's misunderestimate |
| you | misunderestimate |
Verbs conjugated like 'misunderestimate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'misunderestimate'
underestimate,
superestimate,
misestimate,
misunderstand,
overestimate,
underactivate,
underguesstimate,
understate,
understimulate,
undomesticate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From mis- + underestimate, perhaps under influence of misunderstand.
Sample Sentences
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. . .is almost sure to misunderstand and misunderestimate the significance of the question at hand. [1897 April 17, “American Diplomacy on the Bosphorous”, in The Outlook:]
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Now in the very earliest years of the eighteenth century it is understandable that, owing to the inevitable, due to our never-to-be-misunderestimated Frederick the Gross . . . [1975, Thomas Merton, My Argument With the Gestapo:]
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And I think after Three Mile Island, not only does the NRC itself understand that it sadly misunderestimated the number of ways in . . . [1980, Accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Powerplant: Oversight Hearings:]
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. . . not only the disciples within their accounts, had seriously misunderestimated the life and teaching of Jesus. [1992, Adelbert Denaux, John and the Synoptics:]
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Whatever happened to Espy? Well, what happened to Espy is what happens to people whether you're a former congressman or not. If you understand the power -- if you misunderestimate the power of the intense bureaucracy in these agencies and departments and federal institutions, you go, they stay. [1997 Aug. 29, John Conyers (D-MI), "Delivers Remarks to the Department of Agriculture's Coalition of Minority Employees"]
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Hence, while anticipating incoming fire, here are several factors for why even the most liberal of Democrats should not "misunderestimate" — my favorite Bushism — our prez. [2003 April 30, Joel Connelly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer:]
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"I think that anybody who misunderestimates this president is going to have egg on their face in a few years," Rice told me. [2004, Bill Sammon, Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, John Kerry, and the Bush Haters,, →ISBN, page 347:]
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The most quoted malamanteau is George W. Bush’s “I misunderestimated”. Others that have evoked smirks have been “miscommunicado” (from “miscommunicate” and “incommunicado”), “insinuendo” (from “innuendo” and “insinuation”), and “squirmish” (“squirm” and “skirmish”). [2017 December 4, Roslyn Petelin, “The horror and pleasure of misused words: from mispronunciation to malapropisms”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2024:]