ALL meanings of understatement
un·der·state·ment
U u - noun understatement the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts: The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage. This turned out to be a massive understatement of the devastation. 1
- noun understatement An incomplete statement, particularly. 0
- countable noun understatement If you say that a statement is an understatement, you mean that it does not fully express the extent to which something is true. 0
- uncountable noun understatement Understatement is the practice of suggesting that things have much less of a particular quality than they really have. 0
- noun understatement the act or an instance of stating something in restrained terms, or as less than it is 0