misvalue

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mey-?

Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.

Proto-Germanic *missaz

Proto-Germanic *missa-

Proto-West Germanic *missa-

Old English mis-

Middle English mys-

English mis-

English value

English misvalue

From mis- + value.

Verb

misvalue (third-person singular simple present misvalues, present participle misvaluing, simple past and past participle misvalued)

1. (transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
   • 1994, Sheldon Saul Richmond, Aesthetic Criteria: Gombrich and the Philosophies of Science of Popper and Polanyi‎^[1], Rodopi, →ISBN, page 59:

     Gombrich generalizes his argument: all norms of progress misvalue art by over-rating their own achievement, under-rating other styles, and by viewing previous styles as precursors to their own work.