Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

underannotate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-der-an-no-tate
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To provide too few annotations.

Example Sentences

"And in an engagingly old-fashioned way McFarland aggressively underannotates the chapter, so that nonadepts will be unable to steal fruit from this orchard without acknowledging its source."
"We further demonstrated this point by artificially underannotating the well-annotated POSSUM and Orphanet syndromes, through the random elimination of half the annotated features per syndrome."
"I do tell them that if they overannotate they will kill the book, and that if they underannotate they will not get to levels of deeper reading."

Etymology

From under- + annotate.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: under

Inflected Forms

underannotates (present, singular) underannotating (participle, present) underannotated (participle, past) underannotated (past)

Questions

What does underannotate mean?: To provide too few annotations.
Where does underannotate come from?: From under- + annotate.

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