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underwhelmed

underwhelmed is the simple past and past participle of underwhelm.

Meaning of underwhelm

Verb

underwhelm (third-person singular simple present underwhelms, present participle underwhelming, simple past and past participle underwhelmed)

  1. To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly.
    • The fact that I even mentioned YouTube in the same paragraph as the middling TV company ViacomCBS and Twitter … well, that says something about how YouTube has underwhelmed for some time.2021 August 5, Shira Ovide, “YouTube Is Underwhelming”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about underwhelmed

What is underwhelmed the simple past and past participle of?
Underwhelmed is the simple past and past participle of underwhelm.

Words near underwhelmed in the dictionary

  1. underweighted
  2. underweighting
  3. underweights
  4. underwent
  5. underwhelm
  6. underwhelmed
  7. underwhelming
  8. underwhelmingly
  9. underwhelms
  10. underwhip
  11. underwhipped

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