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underequipped

underequipped adjective: lacking sufficient equipment.

Adjective

underequipped (comparative more underequipped, superlative most underequipped)

  1. Lacking sufficient equipment
    • […] Live Bait Theater will offer an artistic haven to Chicago performance artists, who have traditionally presented their work in one- or two-night engagements in out-of-the-way, underequipped spaces.1988 September 9, Justin Hayford, “Opening Nights: making the world safe for performance art”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of underequipped

comparativemore underequipped
superlativemost underequipped

Origin of underequipped

From under- + equipped.

Questions about underequipped

What does underequipped mean?
Underequipped means lacking sufficient equipment.
What part of speech is underequipped?
Underequipped is an adjective.

Words near underequipped in the dictionary

  1. underenthused
  2. underentitled
  3. underentitlement
  4. underenumeration
  5. underequip
  6. underequipped
  7. underequipping
  8. underequips
  9. undererupt
  10. undererupted
  11. undererupting

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