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Meaning of "underreaction" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNDERREACTION

underreaction  [ˌʌndəriːˈækʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNDERREACTION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Underreaction is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNDERREACTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of underreaction in the English dictionary

The definition of underreaction in the dictionary is a less intense reaction than is expected or appropriate.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNDERREACTION


abreaction
ˌæbrɪˈækʃən
action
ˈækʃən
attraction
əˈtrækʃən
coaction
kəʊˈækʃən
extraction
ɪkˈstrækʃən
fraction
ˈfrækʃən
immunoreaction
ɪˌmjuːnəʊrɪˈækʃən
inaction
ɪnˈækʃən
interaction
ˌɪntərˈækʃən
nonaction
ˌnɒnˈækʃən
overaction
ˌəʊvərˈækʃən
overreaction
ˌəʊvərɪˈækʃən
photoreaction
ˌfəʊtəʊrɪˈækʃən
proaction
prəʊˈækʃən
reaction
rɪˈækʃən
retroaction
ˌrɛtrəʊˈækʃən
satisfaction
ˌsætɪsˈfækʃən
self-action
ˌsɛlfˈækʃən
subaction
sʌbˈækʃən
transaction
trænˈzækʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNDERREACTION

underpropped
underpropper
underpropping
underpublicised
underpublicized
underqualified
underquote
underrate
underrated
underreact
underrepresented
underripe
underrun
underrunning
undersaturated
undersay
underscore
underscoring
underscrub
undersea

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNDERREACTION

accreditation
auction
collection
connection
construction
correction
course of action
detection
direction
election
fiction
function
inspection
instruction
introduction
out of action
production
protection
reduction
section
selection

Synonyms and antonyms of underreaction in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «underreaction» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNDERREACTION

Find out the translation of underreaction to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of underreaction from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «underreaction» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

反应不足
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sub-reacción
570 millions of speakers

English

underreaction
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

underreaction
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

underreaction
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

underreaction
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hiporreflexia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

underreaction
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

underreaction
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kurang upaya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unterreaktion
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

underreaction
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

underreaction
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Underreaction
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

underreaction
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

underreaction
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खालून येणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zayıf tepki
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

underreaction
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

underreaction
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

underreaction
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

underreaction
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

underreaction
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

underreaction
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

underreaction
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

underreaction
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of underreaction

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDERREACTION»

The term «underreaction» is used very little and occupies the 163.362 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDERREACTION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «underreaction» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «underreaction» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about underreaction

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDERREACTION»

Discover the use of underreaction in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to underreaction and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Overreaction of Underreaction? A Reexamination of the ...
This study reexamines the evidence underlying the prior conclusion that investors overreact to accruals -- accruals are negatively associated with subsequent abnormal returns (i.e., the "accrual anomaly").
Yong Yu, 2006
2
Advances in Entrepreneurial Finance: With Applications from ...
For example, as we have seen, the conservatism/anchoring/status quo bias causes underreaction, while representativeness is likely to cause overreaction. If “strength” represents the extremeness of some information, and “weight” represents ...
Rassoul Yazdipour, 2010
3
Focus on Finance and Accounting Research
On the other side, when unfavorable events arrive, overreaction makes prices to be set too low, but after a while these will rise and eventually find their new fundamental values. The Underreaction Hypothesis (UH) states that stock prices  ...
Michael H. Neelan, 2007
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Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance
Statistical Evidence of Underreaction To begin, we need to define underreaction to news announcements. Suppose that in each time period, the investor hears news about a particular company. We denote the news he hears in period tby z.
Andrei Shleifer, 2000
5
Behavioural Finance
Chapter. 9. Overreaction. and/or. Underreaction. The tendency to follow trends is one of the basic traits of human nature and in much of financial decision making too. The BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are today's hot-ticket ...
William Forbes, 2009
6
Advances in Behavioral Finance
The Evidence In this section, we summarize the statistical evidence of underreaction and overreaction in security returns. We devote only minor attention to the behavior of aggregate stock and bond returns because these data generally do not ...
Richard H. Thaler, 2005
7
Handbook of Behavioral Finance
Underreaction Underreaction can be explained by conservatism (Edwards, 1968) . This suggests that individuals slowly adjust their beliefs in respect to new information. There is a large literature that demonstrates underreaction (see, e.g.,  ...
Brian R. Bruce, 2010
8
Behavioral Finance: Investors, Corporations, and Markets
Errors in the processing of information (the impact of which is measured with the ̃ε1 value) sometimes lead to underreaction and at other times contribute to market overreaction. Insufficient response to new positive information or overreaction ...
H. Kent Baker, John R. Nofsinger, 2010
9
Advances in Business and Management Forecasting
For both Case 1 and Case 2, where a and B take relatively small numbers, the investor gradually absorbs the information (underreaction), overshoots the target (overreaction), and then gradually tapers down to the correct level. It is interesting  ...
Kenneth D. Lawrence, Professor Ronald Klimberg, 2013
10
Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets: How Psychology ...
Errors in Information Processing Errors in the processing ofinformation (the impact of which is measured with the ɛ∼1 value) sometimes lead to underreaction and at other times contribute to market overreaction. Insufficient response to new ...
Adam Szyszka, 2013

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNDERREACTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term underreaction is used in the context of the following news items.
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Emergency responses need improvement
... of the situation, the initial campus reaction to the events seemed to be an underreaction. Nevertheless, the threats allowed the Hamilton Emergency Response ... «Hamilton College - The Spectator, Apr 15»
2
Jonathan Rauch: Barack Obama is right — we've never been safer
President Barack Obama catches flak for his supposed underreaction to crises in the Middle East, Ukraine and elsewhere. Instead of leading, the professorial ... «Dallas Morning News, Mar 15»
3
Quantitative Momentum Research: Price and Earnings Momentum
We examine whether the predictability of future returns from past returns is due to the market's underreaction to information, in particular to past earnings news. «ValueWalk, Feb 15»
4
Conspiracy theory: Fake injuries?
Underreaction of the week: Kudos to Colorado State, which notched its second win over a Power 5 conference school this past weekend, a come-from-behind ... «ESPN, Oct 14»
5
Conspiracy theory: PSU helps B1G
So today, we present the conspiracy theory of the week, along with the biggest overreaction and underreaction to the weekend that was in college football. «ESPN, Sep 14»
6
George Stephanopoulos Frets Over US Taking Action Against ISIS …
For his part, Kristol immediately shot down Stephanopoulos' claim that the U.S. risks overreacting with ISIS: The fundamental danger remains underreaction. «NewsBusters, Aug 14»
7
The Overconfident Investor Moves Markets
For everyday investors, this is dangerous in two ways: Overconfidence caused the overreaction in the first place, and overconfidence causes underreaction as ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jun 13»
8
Ten Films I Liked in 2010
Not that he lost, or will ever lose, his talent for underreaction: a more precious commodity than ever, in the epoch of the overblown. Deadpan, in fact, had a ... «New Yorker, Dec 10»
9
Keeping Kids Safe From the Wrong Dangers
If history is any guide, we seem to veer between overreaction and underreaction — all while defining our own response as “moderate.” There is an inherent ... «New York Times, Sep 10»

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