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underactions

underactions is the plural of underaction.

Meaning of underaction

Noun

underaction (countable and uncountable, plural underactions)

  1. (obsolete) subplot; a minor event incidental or subsidiary to the main story.
    • The least and most trivial episodes or underactions […] are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design.1697, Virgil, “Dedication to Virgil's Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page [151]
  2. Inefficient action.

Questions about underactions

What is underactions the plural of?
Underactions is the plural of underaction.

Words near underactions in the dictionary

  1. underacknowledged
  2. underact
  3. underacted
  4. underacting
  5. underaction
  6. underactions
  7. underactivate
  8. underactivated
  9. underactivates
  10. underactivating
  11. underactivation

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