understep
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To have a gait in which the hind foot touches the ground behind the point where the front foot touches the ground.
noun
A gait in which the hind feet touch the ground behind the point where the front feet touch the ground.
noun
A movement in which one understeps.
adj
Underneath a step.
Example Sentences
- "The Questers were many, and fortunately the Answerer did not too often overstep or understep the mark."
- "For the moment I experience the conflict as suffering and bear it, I no longer really move within problematic actuality but understep it."
- "They will understep and overstep the bounds of propriety, and even of legality."
- "Either one of them overstep or understep their bounds at any one point in time."
- "If you're working on a structured question check the number of marks allocated for each part of the question and divide up your words accordingly. Finally, don't understep the word limit."
- "As an instance of this inability to control the muscles well, may be cited the almost constant tendency to understep or overstep especially with the fore legs."