Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

underweening

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-der-ween-ing
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Undervaluation.

Uncountable

adj

Extremely modest.

verb

present participle and gerund of underween

Example Sentences

"Here is forbidden an over or underweening of the good things in our selves,"
"But the greatest underweening of this life is to undervalue that, unto which this is but Exordial or a Passage leading unto it."
"It is quite possible Challis may think you have an overweening estimate of foreigners and that a particular foreigner may think that your estimate of him is underweening as compared with his own."
"But when this same, very likable but nebbishy comedian pretends to be that supremely ambitious youth, Phaethon, the tragic ride in the chariot of the Sun-God is reduced from overweening to underweening."
"Is it possible to be underweening? Too unassuming in one's opinions?"
"In fact, if anything, it is an underweening bureaucracy."

Etymology

From underween + -ing.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: underween

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

more underweening (comparative) most underweening (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

underween

Questions

What does underweening mean?: Undervaluation.
Where does underweening come from?: From underween + -ing.

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