underassertively
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an underassertive manner.
Example Sentences
- "Some of the most difficult situations for underassertive people involve requests and compliments: — making a request — refusing a request — giving a compliment — accepting a compliment. People who act underassertively may have difficulty asking others for what they want,"
- "Rather, like the medical institutions, and like many American parents around him, he was cautiously — "underassertively," he often says — feeling his way toward alternatives to the old-fashioned techniques."
- "The assertiveness training sessions involved role-playing in a given situation in three ways, viz., underassertively (passively), overassertively (aggressively), and assertively."
Etymology
From underassertive + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more underassertively (comparative)
most underassertively (superlative)