Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

underspecify

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
un-der-spec-i-fy
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To give insufficient, or insufficiently precise, information; to specify incompletely.

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 specify English underspecify From under- + specify.

Inflected Forms

underspecifies (present, singular) underspecifying (participle, present) underspecified (participle, past) underspecified (past)

Antonyms

overspecify

Questions

What does underspecify mean?
To give insufficient, or insufficiently precise, information; to specify incompletely.
Where does underspecify come from?
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 specify English underspecify From under- + specify.

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