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underexplaining

underexplaining is the present participle and gerund of underexplain.

Meaning of underexplain

Verb

underexplain (third-person singular simple present underexplains, present participle underexplaining, simple past and past participle underexplained)

  1. To provide an insufficient explanation
    • Then again, overexplaining is better than underexplaining.2009 January 4, Peter Keepnews, “A Love Supreme”, in New York Times

Questions about underexplaining

What is underexplaining the present participle and gerund of?
Underexplaining is the present participle and gerund of underexplain.

Words near underexplaining in the dictionary

  1. underexpansions
  2. underexpenditure
  3. underexperienced
  4. underexplain
  5. underexplained
  6. underexplaining
  7. underexplains
  8. underexploit
  9. underexploitation
  10. underexploitations
  11. underexploited

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underexplaining (page history and authors); underexplain (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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