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underattended

underattended adjective: attended by too few people. Also the simple past and past participle of underattend.

Adjective

underattended (comparative more underattended, superlative most underattended)

  1. Attended by too few people.
    • At 4D, husky boys Roman Ricardo, Ford Croell, Doug E. Fresh, Vito Bruno and Russel Buckingham attempt to make the underattended club seem crowded.1986 December, Melik Kaylan, “Downtown: It's Like You Know...”, in Spy, page 53
    • While classrooms in big cities are often overcrowded, underattended rural schools have almost as many teachers as students - a situation one doesn't see even in elite preparatory schools.1999, The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
  2. Given too little attention.
    • The selection includes novels by authors who have received little academic attention — Abraham Rodriguez, Achy Obejas, and Benjamin Alire Saenz — along with underattended texts from more renowned writers — Rosario Ferre, Coco Fusco, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña.2002, Paul Allatson, Latino Dreams: Transcultural Traffic and the U.S. National Imaginary, →ISBN
    • This book has been a more difficult book to write than I had anticipated. I now have a very intimate appreciation of why the analysis of political corruption is an underattended subject.2015, Peter DeLeon, Thinking About Political Corruption, →ISBN

Also used as

underattended is also the simple past and past participle of underattend.

Examples of underattended in a sentence

  • Baker had appeared recently at a Canadian book festival, an event that the blogger claimed was woefully underattended, like Salter's reading.2015, J.C. Hallman, B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal, →ISBN, page 21:
  • One is to put more energy into collecting data from the unit at the underattended data collection level, so that the emerging findings more closely reflect the main topic.2015, Robert K. Yin, Qualitative Research from Start to Finish, →ISBN:

Forms of underattended

comparativemore underattended
superlativemost underattended

Origin of underattended

From under- + attended.

From underattend + -ed.

Questions about underattended

What does underattended mean?
Underattended means attended by too few people.
How do you use underattended in a sentence?
Baker had appeared recently at a Canadian book festival, an event that the blogger claimed was woefully underattended, like Salter's reading.
What part of speech is underattended?
Underattended is an adjective.

Words near underattended in the dictionary

  1. underate
  2. underated
  3. underattainment
  4. underattend
  5. underattendance
  6. underattended
  7. underattending
  8. underattends
  9. underattention
  10. underattenuation
  11. underattribute

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