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underact

underact verb: to act in an understated manner or with little expressiveness.

Verb

underact (third-person singular simple present underacts, present participle underacting, simple past and past participle underacted)

  1. (intransitive) To act in an understated manner or with little expressiveness.

underact meaning in Urdu

underact in Urdu

underact
ادھورا کام کرنا adhūrā kām karnā

Antonyms of underact

Forms of underact

third-person singular presentunderacts
present participleunderacting
past participleunderacted
pastunderacted

Origin of underact

From under- + act.

Words that rhyme with underact

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Questions about underact

What does underact mean?
Underact means to act in an understated manner or with little expressiveness.
What is underact in Urdu?
Underact in Urdu is ادھورا کام کرنا (adhūrā kām karnā). See Underact meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is underact?
Underact is a verb.
What is the past tense of underact?
The past tense of underact is underacted.

Words near underact in the dictionary

  1. underachievers
  2. underachieves
  3. underachieving
  4. underacinated
  5. underacknowledged
  6. underact
  7. underacted
  8. underacting
  9. underaction
  10. underactions
  11. underactivate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underact (page history and authors); ادھورا کام کرنا (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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