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undertime

Syllables: un·der·time/ˌʌn.dəɹˈtaɪ̯m/

undertime verb: to measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required.

Verb

undertime (third-person singular simple present undertimes, present participle undertiming, simple past and past participle undertimed)

  1. (transitive) To measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required.
  2. (transitive) To underexpose.

Noun (1)

IPA/ˈʌn.dəɹˌtaɪ̯m/

undertime (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The time spent at a workplace doing non-work activities.

Noun (2)

IPA/ˈʌn.dəɹˌtaɪ̯m/

undertime

  1. (obsolete) The later part of the day; afternoon; undertide.
    • He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he euer saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13

undertime meaning in Tamil

undertime in Tamil

குறைவானநேரத்தில்

Forms of undertime

third-person singular presentundertimes
present participleundertiming
past participleundertimed
pastundertimed
alternative formunder-time

Origin of undertime

From under- + time.

From under- + time, based on overtime.

Words that rhyme with undertime

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Questions about undertime

What does undertime mean?
Undertime means to measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required.
What is undertime in Tamil?
Undertime in Tamil is குறைவானநேரத்தில். See Undertime meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is undertime?
Undertime can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce undertime?
Undertime is pronounced /ˌʌn.dəɹˈtaɪ̯m/.
What is the past tense of undertime?
The past tense of undertime is undertimed.

Words near undertime in the dictionary

  1. undertie
  2. underties
  3. undertilde
  4. undertildes
  5. undertile
  6. undertime
  7. undertimed
  8. undertimes
  9. undertiming
  10. undertint
  11. undertints

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: undertime (page history and authors); undertime (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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