underattribute

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To attribute insufficiently or inadequately.; To underestimate the role of some specified factors in causing (a particular outcome, action, or state of affairs). transitive
    — Our tendency to overattribute behavior to dispositions and underattribute it to circumstances is known as the fundamental attribution error (Ross, 1977).
  2. To attribute insufficiently or inadequately.; To tend to mistakenly believe that (a certain quality) is not present when, in fact, it is. transitive
    — The hypothesis of interest was stated by Siegel as follows: "Women who have personal difficulty in handling aggressive impulses are more extreme than others in their judgments of hostility in film characters— some underattribute and others overattribute. "
  3. To attribute insufficiently or inadequately.; To misattribute a work of art by asserting that the artist is a less renowned one than it actually is. transitive
    — In the event of a sleeper consignment, the auctioneer is often not fraudulently misrepresenting the property, as he generally has no intention to erroneously underattribute and undersell the lot.

词形变化

underattributes present,singular,third-person underattributing participle,present underattributed participle,past underattributed past

词汇关系

衍生词

词源

From under- + attribute.
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