Crossword clues for understate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Understate \Un`der*state"\, v. t. To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To state something with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay. 2 To state something with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony. 3 To state a quantity that is too low.
WordNet
Usage examples of "understate".
The impersonal, reportorial quality of the third-person objective point of view works well to suggest ironies of situations and speech, those understated subtleties of discovery and reversal that make for psychological suspense.
Pretty fabrics, porcelain and jade lamps, and the charming country antiques her mother had found added charm, liveliness, understated elegance, and comfort.
Elaine was wearing black velvet pants with a Chinese jacket of blue brocade and looked elegant in an understated way.
It was, as Ehomba put it in his pragmatically understated fashion, now simply a matter of going there.
Negrinus, with a flash of his understated intelligence, looked rueful, as if he knew exactly what I thought.
Verginius Laco, thin, austere and understated, now seemed to be the family leader.
When we had been together, she had been a thin, pale, understated wee thing, with poorly cut mid-brown hair, little or no make-up, and a bad habit of catalogue shopping for clothes.
Like every other invite, the design was understated, the printing was meticulous, and the envelope had her name on it.
Soft clicking testified in understated eloquence to the craftsmanship and deadly precision of another age.
Moments later, it stopped gently in a curving driveway before a gracefully understated jade-stone portico: the sprawling Lordglen House of State.
Crown Prince Leopold exuded an ageless, almost ethereal restraint which, in its own understated manner, stood out like a beacon from all the heavy magnificence of the ornate drawing room.
The single-button chocolate dress suit he wore under his long coat was also understated, but the super-fine material and the tailored cut reeked of money.
Her broad desk was an understated work of art made of real imported blackwood.
His broad shoulders and narrow waist were accentuated by his understated but exceedingly well-cut ankle-length suit coat and knife-edge dress slacks.
Deputy Hanson had already told her about the Smith and Wesson in the glove box, and her understated reprimand was well deserved.