adj
Meaning 1
Restrained and unpretentious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
understated
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ʌndəˈsteɪtɪd/
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rhymes with -eɪtɪd
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CMU ARPABET: AH1 N D ER0 S T EY2 T IH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
simple past and past participle of understate
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
exhibiting restrained good taste
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the room is pleasant and understated
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unostentatious, unpretentious
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1én Proto-Indo-European *h1entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dhí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dhér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English stated English understated From under- + stated.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1én Proto-Indo-European *h1entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dhí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dhér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- Proto-Indo-European *steh2- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *stéh2-tu-s ~ *sth2-téw-s Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state English understate English -ed English understated From understate + -ed.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: զուսպ (zusp) — restrained and unpretentious
- Armenian: անհավակնոտ (anhavaknot) — restrained and unpretentious
- Chinese Mandarin: 低調的 /低调的 (dīdiào de) — restrained and unpretentious
- Chinese Mandarin: 樸素的 /朴素的 (pǔsù de) — restrained and unpretentious
- Chinese Mandarin: 簡樸的 /简朴的 (jiǎnpǔ de) — restrained and unpretentious
- Danish: nedtonet — restrained and unpretentious
- Dutch: niet overdreven — restrained and unpretentious
- French: réfréné — restrained and unpretentious
- French: sans prétention — restrained and unpretentious
- Galician: discreto — restrained and unpretentious
- Galician: comedido — restrained and unpretentious
- Galician: sinxelo — restrained and unpretentious
- German: unaufdringlich — restrained and unpretentious
- German: unauffällig — restrained and unpretentious
- German: subtil — restrained and unpretentious
- Hungarian: visszafogott — restrained and unpretentious
- Polish: skromny — restrained and unpretentious
- Polish: bezpretensjonalny — restrained and unpretentious
- Russian: скромный (skromnyj) — restrained and unpretentious
- Russian: аскетичный (asketičnyj) — restrained and unpretentious
- Spanish: discreto — restrained and unpretentious
- Spanish: sencillo — restrained and unpretentious
- Spanish: comedido — restrained and unpretentious