underattend
underattend verb: to pay too little attention to.
Verb
underattend (third-person singular simple present underattends, present participle underattending, simple past and past participle underattended)
- To pay too little attention to.
- A few use more drugs than we wish to know; most are wonderful parents but some underattend to their children well beyond neglect.1998, Geoffrey Shacklock, John Smyth, Being Reflexive in Critical Educational and Social Research, →ISBN, page 20
- Although temporal and spatial thinking are never really alternative to each other, I've consistently tried in Touching Feeling to push back against an occupational tendency to underattend to the rich dimension of space.2015, David A. Gerstner, Julien Nahmias, Christophe Honoré: A Critical Introduction, page 40
Forms of underattend
| third-person singular present | underattends |
|---|---|
| present participle | underattending |
| past participle | underattended |
| past | underattended |
| alternative form | under-attend |
Origin of underattend
From under- + attend.
Questions about underattend
- What does underattend mean?
- Underattend means to pay too little attention to.
- What part of speech is underattend?
- Underattend is a verb.
- What is the past tense of underattend?
- The past tense of underattend is underattended.
Words near underattend in the dictionary
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