There is no danger that English thought will ever underestimate the value and meaning of the individual soul.

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running waterthere is no help for any of these things.

Premature this might prove to be, but it seemed impossible to misunderstand the emotion under which the chief engineer was labouring or to underestimate its potential value to Lanyard.

It never pays to underestimate your enemy.

"You underestimate my courage," Wingate assured them with a smile.

overestimate &c 482; underestimate &c 483.

V. underrate, underestimate, undervalue, underreckon^; depreciate; disparage &c (detract) 934; not do justice to; misprize, disprize; ridicule &c 856; slight &c (despise) 930; neglect &c 460; slur over. make light of, make little of, make nothing of, make no account of; belittle; minimize, think nothing of; set no store by, set at naught; shake off as dewdrops from the lion's mane.

V. be unimportant &c adj.; not matter &c 642; go for nothing, matter nothing, signify nothing, matter little, matter little or nothing; not matter a straw &c n.. make light of &c (underestimate) 483; catch at straws &c (overestimate) 482.

I don't underestimate itwould have, at least, earned for me the privilege of remaining in this case until its conclusion," said Mr. Grimm steadily.

While I do not underestimate the power of prayer, I say give me my ballot on election day that shall send pure men, good men, intelligent men, statesmen, instead of the modern politician, into our legislative halls.

We do not underestimate the gravity of the present crisis, and we agree that nothing should be done to exasperate it; but if the people of the Free States have been taught anything by the repeated lessons of bitter experience, it has been that submission is not the seed of conciliation, but of contempt and encroachment.

It is good to hear things like that though I think you underestimate your own strength.

" Morrison showed no interest in this vaguely phrased hypothesis, and returned to an earlier contention: "You underestimate," he said, "the amount of education and taste and time it takes to arrange that simple-looking vase of grasses, to appreciate your leaf-shadows.

I have tossed him in the air, to his own delight and to the consternation of his mother, who feared lest I should fail to catch him on his way down, or that I should underestimate the distance between the top of his head and the ceiling on his way up.

Simultaneously then, being yourself only a fool after all, you flatter me and underestimate my intelligence.

" No doubt the story-telling habit owes much to the fact that ordinary people, quite unconsciously, rate humour very low: I mean, they underestimate the difficulty of "making humour."

Don't underestimate his ability or overestimate your shot-making prowess.

He's doing things, and the fact that they aren't just the kind of things I like doesn't make me fool enough to underestimate them or him.

One is liable to underestimate the width of crevasses where the magnitudes in general are great, I therefore stared at this one mighty keenly, estimating its width and the shape of the edge on the farther side, until I thought that I could jump it if necessary, but that in case I should be compelled to jump back from the lower side I might fail.

He never seeks to underestimate his strength.

Several facts indicate that he did not underestimate the worth and range of his title of king.

I do not think I underestimate that cruelty or its tragic consequences.

The universal tendency to rhythm in motion (material or psychic) manifests itself in an overestimate or underestimate of incomes and of every other factor in value.

You grievously underestimate that following.

The Chanson de la Croisade does not underestimate the impression made by his death.