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underspecifying

underspecifying is the present participle and gerund of underspecify.

Meaning of underspecify

Verb

underspecify (third-person singular simple present underspecifies, present participle underspecifying, simple past and past participle underspecified)

  1. To give insufficient, or insufficiently precise, information; to specify incompletely.

Questions about underspecifying

What is underspecifying the present participle and gerund of?
Underspecifying is the present participle and gerund of underspecify.

Words near underspecifying in the dictionary

  1. underspecifications
  2. underspecificity
  3. underspecified
  4. underspecifies
  5. underspecify
  6. underspecifying
  7. underspeed
  8. underspend
  9. underspender
  10. underspenders
  11. underspending

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underspecifying (page history and authors); underspecify (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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