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undertheorized

undertheorized adjective: insufficiently theoretically studied or researched.

Adjective

undertheorized (comparative more undertheorized, superlative most undertheorized)

  1. Insufficiently theoretically studied or researched.
    • Of course, there are many undertheorized grounds that need to be reconstructed, and Allama Jafari himself confessed (Jafari 1387, 145) to various shortcomings which one may come across within his theoretical paradigm, which we have termed as primordial school of social theory.2010, Seyed Javad Miri, chapter 3, in Reflections on the Social Thought of Allama M. T. Jafari, page 40

Forms of undertheorized

comparativemore undertheorized
superlativemost undertheorized

Origin of undertheorized

From under- + theorized.

Questions about undertheorized

What does undertheorized mean?
Undertheorized means insufficiently theoretically studied or researched.
What part of speech is undertheorized?
Undertheorized is an adjective.

Words near undertheorized in the dictionary

  1. undertests
  2. undertext
  3. undertexts
  4. undertheorised
  5. undertheorize
  6. undertheorized
  7. undertheorizes
  8. undertheorizing
  9. underthigh
  10. underthighs
  11. underthing

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