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underslept

underslept is the simple past and past participle of undersleep.

Meaning of undersleep

Verb

undersleep (third-person singular simple present undersleeps, present participle undersleeping, simple past and past participle underslept)

  1. (intransitive) To sleep too little.

Adjective

underslept (not comparable)

  1. Having slept too little.

Questions about underslept

What does underslept mean?
Underslept means having slept too little.
What is underslept the simple past and past participle of?
Underslept is the simple past and past participle of undersleep.
What part of speech is underslept?
Underslept is an adjective.

Words near underslept in the dictionary

  1. undersleep
  2. undersleeping
  3. undersleeps
  4. undersleeve
  5. undersleeves
  6. underslept
  7. underslide
  8. underslides
  9. undersling
  10. underslings
  11. underslip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underslept (page history and authors); undersleep (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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