Object

• extent: However looking at the full year understates the extent of the change throughout the year.

• villa: Wow factor villas, understated villas, contemporary villas, homey villas.

• luxury: Eight bedrooms provide classic understated luxury with private balconies overlooking the lush gardens.

• humor: He said he did not think The Office's understated ironic humor would be lost on an American TV audience.

• vocal: The first song rolled through the verses with Neil's softly spoken, understated vocals.

Used with why or when

• what: The words chip, information technology, communications, digital revolution - all understate what is happening.

• where: They have always seemed subtle and understated where a trout is a little in your face.

Modifying Another Word

• grossly: To say he's not a very nice man is to grossly understate just how villainously evil he really is.

Adjective complement

• cool: The band is amazing and have certainly found their chi with a terminally understated cool on " Sleepwalk " .

• chic: Comfortable grown-up dining is the deal amid the understated chic of one of London's first boutique hotels.

Modifying Another Word

• nicely: Excellent harp, nicely understated slide playing, evocative vocals.

• wonderfully: In a wonderfully understated way she told me that she was a canoeist.

• beautifully: In the meantime we have Phoenix House, their beautifully understated contribution to London's ever growing number of serviced apartments.

• deliberately: The facts of the story were deliberately understated to meet the censor's requirements.

• quietly: And throughout the Crucifixion narratives, tho the suffering is quietly understated, it is equally clear.

Preposition: in

• way: A scent that's understated in a feminine way.