UNDEREMPHASIZE Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

underemphasize

verb

Definition of underemphasize

as in to understate

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Recent Examples of underemphasize Many university cybersecurity programs underemphasize cyber law, risk management, enterprise architecture and executive communication, producing graduates who can configure a firewall but cannot assess business risk or brief a board. — Harpreet Sidhu, Fortune, 13 June 2026 The charts can also miss or underemphasize trends in music streaming, a challenge that Billboard itself has acknowledged. — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 25 June 2022 In fiction, perhaps there can be a tendency to both overemphasize and underemphasize the centrality of this activity to modern life. — David Wallace, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021

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Expectations for board members (time per month, additional duties, sub-committee contributions) are explicitly stated and not understated.

— Melissa A. Wheeler, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
After that feral beginning, the rest of the album is mostly contemplative, wistful, and understated, amid cascading guitars and various sounds that are at times acoustic or gently swirling.

— Steve Appleford, SPIN, 25 Aug. 2026

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