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underimagined

underimagined adjective: insufficiently imagined; betraying a lack of imagination.

Adjective

underimagined (comparative more underimagined, superlative most underimagined)

  1. Insufficiently imagined; betraying a lack of imagination.
    • Though craftsmanly, smooth, and committed, in the main, they nonetheless seem underimagined.1993, Peter Wolfe, Alarms and Epitaphs: The Art of Eric Ambler, →ISBN, page 216
    • Caithness was infiltrated with a palpable sense of being underimagined.2012, Will Self, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, →ISBN, page 113

Forms of underimagined

comparativemore underimagined
superlativemost underimagined

Origin of underimagined

From under- + imagined.

Questions about underimagined

What does underimagined mean?
Underimagined means insufficiently imagined; betraying a lack of imagination.
What part of speech is underimagined?
Underimagined is an adjective.

Words near underimagined in the dictionary

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

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