单词	understatement
释义	understatementun‧der‧state‧ment /ˌʌndəˈsteɪtmənt $ -dər-/ ●○○ noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES To say I was surprised would be an understatement. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS She was conscious of being a misfit, and that was a great understatement. That's the biggest understatement of all time! To say that his situation was difficult would be a decided understatement. To say that I was surprised by this state of affairs would be an understatement. To say that Reba Cooley presented a striking appearance would have been an understatement of ridiculous proportions. To suggest that Niagara was an obsession with him is an understatement. We had had a superb day's climbing, and to say his death was tragic is an understatement. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► is an understatement  To say the movie was bad is an understatement. ► the understatement of the year  ‘It wasn’t very easy to find the house.’ ‘That’s got to be the understatement of the year!’ Word family WORD FAMILYnounstatementunderstatement ≠ overstatementverbstateunderstate ≠ overstateadjectiveunderstated ≠ overstated 1[countable] a statement that is not strong enough to express how good, bad, impressive etc something really is:  To say the movie was bad is an understatement. ‘It wasn’t very easy to find the house.’ ‘That’s got to be the understatement of the year!’2[uncountable] the practice of making something seem to have less of a particular quality than it really haswith understatement ‘We have not done quite well enough,’ Macmillan said, with characteristic understatement.
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