underrated

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adjective

un·​der·​rat·​ed ˌən-dər-ˈrā-təd 

ˌən-də-

: rated or valued too low

an underrated movie/book

… Francis, surely the most underrated player in the league, led the improbable comeback.

—E. M. Swift

Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot, is a very underrated 1976 comedy-thriller about a phony psychic's accidental involvement with jewel thieves.

—Joe Leydon

underrated

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past tense and past participle of underrate

Examples of underrated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

The book features essays by, or conversations with, musicians about the albums that had a huge influence on them, but may otherwise be underrated or unknown. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2026

Milwaukee is well rested after a first-round bye and will have Misiorowski and the underrated Logan Henderson for the first two games of the series. — The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026

The restaurant also made a CharlotteFive list of the area’s most underrated Mexican restaurants, as decided by readers. — Eva Flowe october 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2026

Jordan Phillips might be the most underrated player on the Miami Dolphins. — Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1778, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for underrated

• abdicated
• abrogated
• acclimated
• activated
• actuated
• adumbrated
• advocated
• aggravated
• aggregated
• agitated
• allocated
• alternated