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underilluminated

underilluminated adjective: insufficiently illuminated.

Adjective

underilluminated (comparative more underilluminated, superlative most underilluminated)

  1. Insufficiently illuminated
    • PCO translucent opacities apparently induce erratic light-scatter within the eye, which results in a combination of underilluminated retinal areas and in an increased PSD.2015 June 8, Jose Javier Garcia-Medina et al., “Does Posterior Capsule Opacification Affect the Results of Diagnostic Technologies to Evaluate the Retina and the Optic Disc?”, in BioMed Research...

Forms of underilluminated

comparativemore underilluminated
superlativemost underilluminated

Origin of underilluminated

From under- + illuminated.

Questions about underilluminated

What does underilluminated mean?
Underilluminated means insufficiently illuminated.
What part of speech is underilluminated?
Underilluminated is an adjective.

Words near underilluminated in the dictionary

  1. underhyped
  2. underided
  3. underidentification
  4. underidentified
  5. underidentify
  6. underilluminated
  7. underilluminating
  8. underimagined
  9. underimmunise
  10. underimmunised
  11. underimmunises

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