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underheard

underheard adjective: having an insufficiently large listening audience; neglected or overlooked as a speaker or musician.

Adjective

underheard (comparative more underheard, superlative most underheard)

  1. Having an insufficiently large listening audience; neglected or overlooked as a speaker or musician.
    • One was that waitresses, among the underheard icons of America, would have many important things to say about their work.2007 June 17, Alison Owings, “Here to Take Your Order (and Biting Their Tongues)”, in New York Times

Forms of underheard

comparativemore underheard
superlativemost underheard

Origin of underheard

From under- + heard.

Questions about underheard

What does underheard mean?
Underheard means having an insufficiently large listening audience; neglected or overlooked as a speaker or musician.
What part of speech is underheard?
Underheard is an adjective.

Words near underheard in the dictionary

  1. Underhay
  2. Underhays
  3. underhead
  4. underheads
  5. underhealing
  6. underheard
  7. underheat
  8. underheated
  9. underheating
  10. underheats
  11. underhedged

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