underserviced
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Receiving an inadequate or disproportionately low level of service, especially from the state
Example Sentences
- "In Toronto, we have underserviced neighbourhoods, subsidized routes into the city's fringes, and unreliable service in the core."
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 serviced English underserviced From under- + serviced.
Inflected Forms
more underserviced (comparative)
most underserviced (superlative)