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undercompensated

undercompensated is the simple past and past participle of undercompensate.

Meaning of undercompensate

Verb

undercompensate (third-person singular simple present undercompensates, present participle undercompensating, simple past and past participle undercompensated)

  1. (transitive) To underpay: to pay a lower wage or salary, or other compensation, than is warranted

Adjective

undercompensated (not comparable)

  1. Insufficiently compensated

Questions about undercompensated

What does undercompensated mean?
Undercompensated means insufficiently compensated.
What is undercompensated the simple past and past participle of?
Undercompensated is the simple past and past participle of undercompensate.
What part of speech is undercompensated?
Undercompensated is an adjective.

Words near undercompensated in the dictionary

  1. undercommunicated
  2. undercommunicates
  3. undercommunicating
  4. undercommunication
  5. undercompensate
  6. undercompensated
  7. undercompensates
  8. undercompensating
  9. undercompensation
  10. undercompensatory
  11. undercompetence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undercompensated (page history and authors); undercompensate (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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