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underscorings

underscorings is the plural of underscoring.

Meaning of underscoring

Noun

underscoring (plural underscorings)

  1. An underline.
    • Parkington swung his chair away, keeping the book in his hand and his back to Anthony. “He underscored whole passages,” he said. “I can't abide reading a book with underscorings in it.”2002, Jane Toombs, Nightingale Man, page 62

Questions about underscorings

What is underscorings the plural of?
Underscorings is the plural of underscoring.

Words near underscorings in the dictionary

  1. underscored
  2. underscorer
  3. underscorers
  4. underscores
  5. underscoring
  6. underscorings
  7. underscreened
  8. underscreening
  9. underscribe
  10. underscribes
  11. underscrub

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underscorings (page history and authors); underscoring (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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