underwarm
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To warm insufficiently; To fail to provide with the expected or required amount of heat.
Transitive verb
adj
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: underheat"
- "Some workers, now underpaid, underfed, underwarmed, and badly clothed, would quickly respond to improved conditions and pay, and would in a short time become really more efficient."
- "All that need be done is to increase the purchasing power of the millions of impoverished, underfed, underclothed, underwarmed, and underhoused men, women, and children in our industrial centers and the demand will follow."
- "Underfed and underwarmed, he had a hard time of it, and one may guess that his resistance to disease in after-life was weakened by the almost Dotheboys Hall conditions, but those were days when almost all schools 'did the boys'."
- "but the results of slight underwarming were not immediately obvious."
- "Yet a substantial 'underwarming' still remains compared to model estimates […]"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
underwarms (present, singular)
underwarming (participle, present)
underwarmed (participle, past)
underwarmed (past)
more underwarm (comparative)
most underwarm (superlative)