underattended
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "At 4D, husky boys Roman Ricardo, Ford Croell, Doug E. Fresh, Vito Bruno and Russel Buckingham attempt to make the underattended club seem crowded."
- "While classrooms in big cities are often overcrowded, underattended rural schools have almost as many teachers as students - a situation one doesn't see even in elite preparatory schools."
- "Baker had appeared recently at a Canadian book festival, an event that the blogger claimed was woefully underattended, like Salter's reading."
- "The selection includes novels by authors who have received little academic attention — Abraham Rodriguez, Achy Obejas, and Benjamin Alire Saenz — along with underattended texts from more renowned writers — Rosario Ferre, Coco Fusco, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña."
- "This book has been a more difficult book to write than I had anticipated. I now have a very intimate appreciation of why the analysis of political corruption is an underattended subject."
- "One is to put more energy into collecting data from the unit at the underattended data collection level, so that the emerging findings more closely reflect the main topic."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English attended English underattended From under- + attended.
Inflected Forms
more underattended (comparative)
most underattended (superlative)