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underresponsive

underresponsive adjective: insufficiently responsive.

Adjective

underresponsive (comparative more underresponsive, superlative most underresponsive)

  1. Insufficiently responsive.
    • “Piedmont is a facility that was understaffed and underresponsive to clear medical needs,” Mr. Jawetz said.2009 January 28, Nina Bernstein, “Another Detention Death, and Mounting Questions”, in New York Times

Forms of underresponsive

comparativemore underresponsive
superlativemost underresponsive

Origin of underresponsive

From under- + responsive.

Words formed from underresponsive

Questions about underresponsive

What does underresponsive mean?
Underresponsive means insufficiently responsive.
What part of speech is underresponsive?
Underresponsive is an adjective.

Words near underresponsive in the dictionary

  1. underresponders
  2. underresponding
  3. underresponds
  4. underresponse
  5. underresponses
  6. underresponsive
  7. underresponsiveness
  8. underresponsivity
  9. underrestrain
  10. underrestrained
  11. underrestraining

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