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undergroomed

undergroomed adjective: inadequately groomed.

Adjective

undergroomed (comparative more undergroomed, superlative most undergroomed)

  1. Inadequately groomed.
    • […]an idle extravagance which was mistaken for elegant luxury — tumble-down old hackney-coaches, such as had not been seen north of the Potomac for half a century, harness never cleaned, undergroomed horses[…]1954, Sir William Howard Russell, Fletcher Pratt, My Civil War diary, page 20
    • I could barely walk, had lost almost forty pounds, and was undernourished and undergroomed.2012, Paul V. Stutzman, Hiking Through, page 162

Forms of undergroomed

comparativemore undergroomed
superlativemost undergroomed

Origin of undergroomed

From under- + groomed.

Questions about undergroomed

What does undergroomed mean?
Undergroomed means inadequately groomed.
What part of speech is undergroomed?
Undergroomed is an adjective.

Words near undergroomed in the dictionary

  1. undergrinding
  2. undergrinds
  3. undergrip
  4. undergrips
  5. undergroom
  6. undergroomed
  7. undergrooms
  8. underground
  9. underground car parks
  10. underground folk
  11. underground handball

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