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underannotated

underannotated is the simple past and past participle of underannotate.

Meaning of underannotate

Verb

underannotate (third-person singular simple present underannotates, present participle underannotating, simple past and past participle underannotated)

  1. To provide too few annotations.
    • And in an engagingly old-fashioned way McFarland aggressively underannotates the chapter, so that nonadepts will be unable to steal fruit from this orchard without acknowledging its source.1982, James O. Hoge, James L West, James S.W. West, Review, page 153

Adjective

underannotated (not comparable)

  1. Insufficiently annotated.

Origin of underannotated

From underannotate + -ed.

From under- + annotated.

Questions about underannotated

What does underannotated mean?
Underannotated means insufficiently annotated.
What is underannotated the simple past and past participle of?
Underannotated is the simple past and past participle of underannotate.
What part of speech is underannotated?
Underannotated is an adjective.

Words near underannotated in the dictionary

  1. underanalyzing
  2. underanesthetized
  3. underanged
  4. underanimated
  5. underannotate
  6. underannotated
  7. underannotates
  8. underannotating
  9. underannotation
  10. underanticoagulated
  11. underanticoagulation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underannotated (page history and authors); underannotate (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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