Usually means: Not cooked sufficiently or thoroughly.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word underdone:

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  1. underdone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. underdone: Merriam-Webster
  3. underdone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. underdone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. underdone: Collins English Dictionary
  6. underdone: Vocabulary.com
  7. Underdone, underdone: Wordnik
  8. underdone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. underdone: Wiktionary
  10. underdone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. underdone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. underdone: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. underdone: Dictionary.com
  14. underdone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. underdone: Rhymezone
  16. underdone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. UNDERDONE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  18. underdone: FreeDictionary.org
  19. underdone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. underdone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. underdone: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ adjective:  insufficiently cooked; undercooked

Similar:
half-baked, raw, undercooked, underfired, underdigested, underfermented, uncooked, under-fired, underripe, under-ripe, more...

Opposite:
well-done, cooked through, fully cooked, overcooked

Types:
rare, medium rare, medium, medium well, well done, more...
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Similar:
half-baked, raw, undercooked, underfired, underdigested, underfermented, uncooked, under-fired, underripe, under-ripe, more...

Opposite:
well-done, cooked through, fully cooked, overcooked

Types:
rare, medium rare, medium, medium well, well done, more...



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