misunderstate

Etymology

From mis- + understate.

misunderstate means to understate by mistake. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 93 out of 100.

verb

To understate by mistake.“Just as the bathymetrical limit of marine life, which was laid down at 300 fathoms by Professor Edward Forbes, is now no longer accepted, so the distance to which light can penetrate may prove to have been misunderstated hitherto, and should, in the interest of truth, be re-examined by physicists.”