n
(idiomatic, almost always preceded by a) Inferior to the norm.
n
(figuratively) A lack or shortcoming.
v
To undervalue; to depreciate.
n
An event or emanation to which a sensing device gives an undesired positive response.
adj
Significantly below the actual cost or value.
n
Improper, wasteful, or incorrect spending; squandering
v
(medicine) To diagnose a condition that does not, in fact, exist.
v
(slang, humorous) To be misunderstood; to misread, misunderstand
v
To underestimate the value of something.
v
To make disadvantaged by design.
n
The amount by which a quota, debt, or monthly payment on a debt or other obligation is missed; the difference between the actual quota or debt and the lesser amount available to pay such obligations.
n
(manufacturing) The inadequate filling of a package so that it contains too little of the product.
v
(transitive) To perform suboptimization upon.
v
(rare, nonstandard) Synonym of overestimate.
adv
(usually in compounds) Insufficiently.
v
To inadequately accommodate; to fail to make enough adjustments or allowances to meet another's needs.
n
Alternative spelling of underapproximation [An approximation that is lower than the true value.]
v
Alternative form of underattend [To pay too little attention to.]
v
Alternative form of underdose [(transitive, intransitive) To administer an inadequate dose (to someone or to oneself).]
n
Alternative form of underextension. [(linguistics) Application of a term to too few referents, as for example when a child uses cat to refer only to the family pet.]
n
(finance) Hedging to an insufficient extent, such that some future risk remains.
v
Alternative form of underrepresent. [To represent something as being lower or smaller than is the case.]
v
To achieve less than expected; to fail to fulfil one's potential.
v
To act in an understated manner or with little expressiveness
v
To produce insufficient levels of activation.
v
(robotics) To make less easily actuated or responsive.
v
To adjust insufficiently
v
(transitive) To allocate too little of.
n
An excessively small allotment or portion.
v
To provide insufficient amplification.
v
To provide too few annotations.
n
The act of underapplying.
v
(transitive) To apply to an insufficient degree.
n
An appraisal that undervalues something.
v
(transitive) To appraise at too low a value.
v
(intransitive) To not gain in value sufficiently.
v
(transitive) To form an underapproximation of.
n
An approximation that is lower than the true value.
v
(transitive) To argue inadequately.
v
(transitive) To assess at too low a value.
n
The assessment of a tax or charge at a lower value than the correct one.
v
To pay too little attention to.
v
To bake insufficiently, or less than usual
v
(transitive) To beat too little, or less than usual.
v
(transitive) To bill an inadequate amount.
v
To use insufficient acid in an etching process, so that the result is too shallow.
adj
Having had insufficient acid used in an etching process, so that the result is too shallow.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To fail to book enough of something; not to sell as much of something as is required.
n
(uncountable) The process of underboosting.
v
(mathematics) To provide a lower bound to.
v
To breed insufficiently.
v
To brew for too short a time.
v
(transitive) To perform insufficient construction on a building or in an area; build below a specified requirement or standard.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To buy too little.
v
To calculate as being smaller than is actually the case.
n
Calculation producing too small a result.
v
(economics) To supply with insufficient capital
v
To carve insufficiently.
v
To allocate the parts in (a play or film) to insufficiently skilled actors.
v
(transitive) To challenge to an insufficient degree.
v
To characterize insufficiently
v
(transitive, intransitive) To charge less than the correct amount.
v
To claim an insufficient amount
v
To classify insufficiently
v
To use fewer codes than are needed to fully describe something.
v
To collect insufficiently
v
Alternative form of undercolour [(transitive) To colour insufficiently.]
v
(transitive) To colour insufficiently.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make an inadequate commitment; to commit (oneself to) too little (of).
v
To underpay: to pay a lower wage or salary, or other compensation, than is warranted
v
(intransitive) To conform to a lesser extent than necessary or desirable.
v
To consume insufficiently
v
(transitive) To contextualize inadequately.
n
(psychology) A person who controls insufficiently
v
(transitive) To cook insufficiently.
v
To count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another
v
To provide too little coverage.
adj
(film) Of a scene shot while advancing the film in the camera more slowly than it will play on screen. This results in speeding up the action in the final film.
v
To underfill; to fill with too low a population density.
v
To fail to sufficiently suppress vibrations in.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To deal insufficiently or inadequately; have dealings which are below requirement or expectation
v
(transitive) To defend inadequately.
v
(transitive) To define too broadly, or in too little depth.
v
To deliver less, or at an inferior level, than promised or expected
v
(transitive) To detect less of (something) than is actually present.
v
(medicine) To diagnose something less often than it actually occurs.
v
(transitive) To dilute insufficiently.
v
To distribute too little, or not widely enough.
v
(intransitive) To act below one's abilities; do less than one can.
v
(physics) To dope at less than the optimal level for superconductivity
v
(transitive, intransitive) To administer an inadequate dose (to someone or to oneself).
v
(transitive) To fail to dramatize adequately; to make underdramatic.
v
(transitive) To represent inadequately in an artistic depiction, or in words.
v
(intransitive) To earn less than might be expected.
v
Alternative form of underemphasize [(transitive) To place insufficient emphasis on.]
v
(transitive) To place insufficient emphasis on.
v
(transitive) To enforce inadequately.
v
(transitive) To equip inadequately; to provide with insufficient equipment.
v
(dentistry, of a tooth) To erupt less than normal.
v
(transitive) To perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth, etc., than what he/she/it actually has.
v
To evaluate insufficiently
v
(rare, transitive, intransitive) To understate.
v
(intransitive) To take too little exercise.
v
To provide an insufficient explanation
v
To exploit insufficiently
v
To provide with insufficient publicity
v
To express less than normally.
v
(linguistics, transitive) To apply (a term) to too few referents, by underextension.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To farm too little.
v
To feed inadequately or insufficiently.
v
(transitive and intransitive) To feel inadequately or to a lesser degree than expected.
v
To ferment insufficiently.
v
(transitive) To treat (plants) with too little fertilizer.
v
(transitive) To fill with an insufficient amount.
v
To filter insufficiently.
v
(transitive) To finance inadequately.
n
Intentional operation of a boiler, furnace, oven, etc., at a low level.
v
(statistics) To use a statistical model that has too few parameters relative to the size of the sample.
n
The action of the verb underfit.
v
(transitive) To fix inadequately, or below what is required or expected
v
(computing) To trigger the condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored.
v
Alternative form of underfang [(transitive, obsolete) To undertake.]
v
(transitive) To fortify insufficiently.
v
(intransitive) To function inadequately.
v
To provide insufficient funds (for).
v
(transitive) To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently.
v
(transitive) To apply too little gain to (a signal).
v
To apply something with insufficient generality.
v
(rare, transitive, intransitive) To get less than expected or due.
n
The process or situation of obtaining less than what is expected or due.
v
To award too low a grade to a student or a piece of work.
v
To make a guess that is too small; to underestimate.
v
(slang) To underestimate.
v
(sports, transitive) To hit with insufficient force.
v
Make less impression than expected; disappoint, underwhelm
v
(transitive, intransitive) To indulge too little.
n
An act of underindulging; indulgence in too little.
v
(transitive) To inflate too little.
v
(transitive) To provide (someone) with insufficient instruction.
v
To insulate insufficiently
v
To insure insufficiently.
v
(transitive) To irrigate inadequately.
v
(transitive) To issue too few or too little of.
v
(transitive) To judge too little or below accepted standards.
v
(manufacturing) To dispose of too few items because of inadequate inspection criteria.
v
(transitive) To lengthen too little.
v
(intransitive) To live on insufficient resources.
v
(transitive) To load insufficiently.
v
To not give due worth or respect to.
v
(transitive) To lubricate too little.
adv
(chiefly colloquial) In an inferior or inadequate manner; insufficiently (chiefly in opposition to overly).
v
(transitive) To maintain inadequately; to allow to fall into disrepair.
v
To fail to provide with enough workers or crew.
v
(transitive, business) To manage inadequately.
v
(finance) To fall below margin; to create an undermargin.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To measure or estimate with a result that is smaller than it should be.
n
The process or result of undermeasuring; a measurement that is smaller than it should be.
v
(transitive) To milk (a cow or other animal) inadequately.
v
(transitive) To not mix enough; fail to mix adequately or thoroughly.
v
To modify insufficiently.
v
(transitive) To provide with insufficient nourishment.
v
(transitive) To oil insufficiently.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To order too little or too few.
v
(transitive) To oxidize insufficiently.
v
(transitive) To pack inadequately in too little packaging.
v
To provide one's child with insufficient attention and nurturing.
v
(transitive) To pay less than is due for (something).
v
To penalize insufficiently
v
(transitive) To perceive to a lesser degree than actually exists.
v
To underachieve; to fail to reach standards or expectations, especially with respect to a financial investment.
v
(transitive) To place too low in a ranking.
v
(transitive) To plant too little of.
v
(transitive) To make something seem less important than it really is.
v
To include too few points.
v
(transitive) To place (a plant) in too small a pot.
v
(transitive) To supply with insufficient power.
v
(transitive) To praise too little.
n
predicting something to be less that it actually is
n
A prediction that is smaller than the true value.
v
To prenylate insufficiently
v
(transitive) To prescribe (a drug) less frequently than appropriate.
v
Alternative spelling of underpressurize [To bring to too low a pressure.]
v
To bring to too low a pressure.
v
To assign too low a priority to.
v
(transitive) To undervalue; to underestimate.
v
(transitive) To process insufficiently.
v
To produce less than normal, or less than needed
v
(intransitive) To promise less than one expects to do.
v
(transitive) To promote inadequately.
v
(baking) To proof insufficiently.
v
(transitive) To give insufficient protection to.
v
(baking) Alternative form of underproof [(baking) To proof insufficiently.]
v
To inadequately provide.
v
To provide less than is necessary.
v
To punctuate insufficiently.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To give a quotation that is too low, or is lower than that offered by others
n
A price less than the value.
v
(intransitive) To reach insufficiently far; to underachieve.
v
(intransitive) To react inadequately.
v
(transitive) To read to a lesser degree.
v
(transitive) To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate.
v
To recruit to less than the normal or preferable degree
v
To regulate inadequately.
v
(mathematics) To solve using underrelaxation.
v
To replace insufficiently
v
As a group, to report something less frequently than it actually occurs
v
To give something insufficient or inadequate representation.
v
(finance, intransitive) To put an inadequate amount of money in reserve.
n
The act or practice of providing insufficient resources.
v
(intransitive) To respond inadequately, or less than others.
v
To fail to restrain sufficiently.
v
To register too small an amount on a cash register, either accidentally or fraudulently.
v
To rotate insufficiently.
n
(accounting) A condition in which fewer products are delivered or produced than had been ordered.
v
To take insufficient samples when sampling
v
(transitive) To saturate too little.
v
(intransitive) To save too little money.
v
(transitive) To season (flavour) insufficiently.
v
(transitive) To spend too little time or effort in seeking.
v
(transitive) To select (something) less than would be expected.
v
To sell something for less than its value.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To send less than required, needed, or requested.
v
To sense or detect to an inadequate degree.
v
(transitive) To supply something with insufficient services or resources.
v
(transitive) To share too little; to provide insufficient information when sharing.
v
To move too small an amount or not to move something far enough.
n
Shipment of an insufficient amount or quantity of goods.
v
(by extension) To underestimate.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To sing inadequately, or with too little vocal effort.
v
To speak without sufficient emphasis or volume.
v
To give insufficient, or insufficiently precise, information; to specify incompletely.
n
An excessively-low speed; a speed lower than the minimum operating speed.
v
To spend too little of the funds appropriated or allocated.
v
(medicine) To underestimate the severity of a patient's illness
v
(transitive) To state (something) with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony.
v
To take a step that is not far enough forward.
v
(transitive) To stimulate too little or infrequently; to provide with insufficient stimulation.
v
(transitive) To stir too little.
v
(transitive) To stock with an insufficient amount.
v
To subscribe to an extent that is far less than is available or desirable.
n
The subscription of significantly less than is available.
v
(transitive) To provide with inadequate support.
v
(transitive) To levy too little tax upon.
v
(transitive) To test inadequately.
v
To theorize insufficiently.
v
(transitive) To measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required.
v
To leave (somebody) a tip (gratuity) that is too small.
v
To present as less important, noticeable or prominent.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To train less than required or normal.
v
To treat insufficiently or not frequently enough.
v
To make such a diagnosis
v
to use (something) less than expected
v
To vaccinate inadequately, or an insufficient proportion of a population.
n
An assigned value that is inappropriately low.
v
(transitive) To have too little regard for.
v
(transitive) To voice too weakly.
n
A significant drop in voltage.
n
A voltage that is too low.
v
(politics) To spoil a ballot by marking it for fewer choices than mandated by the rules.
v
(agriculture, horticulture) To water or irrigate insufficiently.
v
(transitive) To undervalue.
v
(transitive) To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
v
(of food) To fail to whip enough.
v
(finance) To withhold an inadequate amount of tax for an employee etc., leaving him/her liable to pay the rest at a later stage.
v
(transitive) To require too little work from; to work insufficiently.
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