outmatched
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.22 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of outmatch
adj
Overwhelmed by adversarial forces or circumstances (either animate or inanimate), so as to be facing likely defeat or to have already been defeated.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: outgunned, in too deep, out of one's depth, over one's head"
- "The company's executives mistakenly assumed that they could have a 20-person team cover the work of a 40-person team, causing the staff to be wholly outmatched and thus leading to missed quality defects."
Inflected Forms
more outmatched (comparative)
most outmatched (superlative)