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underfurnished

underfurnished adjective: inadequately furnished; lacking in furniture.

Adjective

underfurnished (comparative more underfurnished, superlative most underfurnished)

  1. Inadequately furnished; lacking in furniture.
    • MARLENE DUMAS’S STUDIO occupies an underheated, underfurnished ground-floor apartment on the southern side of Amsterdam.2008 June 15, Deborah Solomon, “Figuring Marlene Dumas”, in New York Times

Forms of underfurnished

comparativemore underfurnished
superlativemost underfurnished

Origin of underfurnished

From under- + furnished.

Questions about underfurnished

What does underfurnished mean?
Underfurnished means inadequately furnished; lacking in furniture.
What part of speech is underfurnished?
Underfurnished is an adjective.

Words near underfurnished in the dictionary

  1. underfunding
  2. underfundings
  3. underfunds
  4. underfur
  5. underfurnish
  6. underfurnished
  7. underfurnishing
  8. underfurred
  9. underfurrow
  10. underfurrowed
  11. underfurrowing

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