Old English | n | Modern English |
Undark | vb | To undark or lighten the shadows of night. |
Undark | adj | A light or lightish at night. 2. of complexion: light. |
Undarkened | adj | Undarkened by doubt; not darkened, lightened. |
Undawned | adj | Not yet dawned. 2. undawned east; the light quickens in the undawned east. 3. gloomly, as in an undawned morning. |
Undawning | adj | Not yet dawn; just before the dawn; pre-dawn. |
Undead | adj | Not dead; not quite alive, but not fully alive. 2. dead-and-alive, as in vampirism; clinically dead, but not at rest. |
Undeadliness | n | Immortality. |
Undeadly | adj | Not subject to death; immortal not causing death, not mortal. |
Undeaf | vb | To banish deafness: "Medical Science is on the threshold to undeaf those without hearing." 2. able to hear, but refusing to listen. |
Undealt | adj | Undivided; not dealt with. |
Undear | adj | Of little value or estimation, worthless, cheap. 2. not dear; not regarded with affection. |
Undeath-like | adj | Evoking a undeath-like or somewhat life-like image(s) within the mind. 2. a vivid undeathly description. 3. a natural depiction or reprentation of an undeathlike state. 4. a life-like or undeath-like being. 5. resembling death; giving an accurate representation of an undeath. |
Undeath-likeness | n | The state giving or showing n accarate description of undeathness or life. |
Undeathliness | n | Immortality |
Undeathly | adv | Immortal. |
Undeed | vb | Unable or unwilling to do. |
Undeedy | adj | Helpless, incapable, unable to do, impotent |
Undeemed | adj | Not judged or condemned; uncensored. 2. unsuspected; unimagined. |
Undeep | adj | Shallow, shoalish, unprofound. |
Undelve | vb | To not yet have dug up; unexcavated. 2. to not yet have investigated or researched. 3. exhume; as in "undelve the bodies of dead men." |
Undelved | adj | Not yet dug up or harvested. 2. not looked into deeply or thoroughly. |
Under | adv | Notion of "subordination" was present in Old English. Also used in Old English as a preposition meaning "between, among," as still in under these circumstances, etc. (though this may be an entirely separate root; see understand). Productive as a prefix in Old English, as in German and Scandinavian. "Under the table" is "very drunk," also sense is "illegal." to get something under (one's) belt is from 1954; to keep something under (one's) hat "secret" is from 1885; to have something under (one's) nose "in plain sight" is from 1540s; to speak under (one's) breath "in a low voice" is attested from 1832. To be under (someone's) thumb "entirely controlled" is recorded from 1754. |
Under | n | A state of lowness or inferiority. 2. an undervalue or valuation. |
Under | vb | To cast down, depress. |
Under | phr | "Come Under" - fall under; be grouped with. |
Under | phr | "Go Under" - to fail or collapse, as a business venture. |
Under | phr | "Keep Under One's Hat" - keep in confidence, secret. |
Under | phr | "Knuckle Under" - to give in completely. |
Under | phr | "Take Under One's Wing" - guide, protect somebody. |
Under | phr | "Under a Cloud" - to be under suspicion or in disgrace; to be in disfavor. 2. overshadowed by reproach or distrust. |
Under | phr | "Under Arms" - mobilized for active service. |
Under | phr | "Under Fire"- exposed to an enemy fire; taking part in a battle or general engagement. |
Under | phr | "Under Foot" - on the ground; on the surface where one walks. |
Under | phr | "Under Hatches" - below deck. |
Under | phr | "Under Night" - during the night; by night. |
Under | phr | "Under One's Arms" - between the arms and body. |
Under | phr | "Under One's Belt" - of food: eaten. 2. securely acquired. |
Under | phr | "Under One's Breath" - in a low voice; very softly spoken. |
Under | phr | "Under One"- united, conjointly, together, at one time. |
Under | phr | "Under One's Nose" - in plain sight; in full view of somebody, or defiantly in somebody's prescence. 2. very close at hand. |
Under | phr | "Under One's Own Name" - using one's own name to claim or accept, identify, ownership, credit, responsibility. |
Under | phr | "Under Ones Own Steam" - by efforts or means of one's own; without help from anybody else. |
Under | phr | "Under Someone's Thumb" - entirely controlled. |
Under | phr | "Under the Hammer" - to be put put for sale under the auctioneer's hammer. 2. to be put pressure to achieve a quick and successful result |
Under | phr | "Under them All" - altogether, denoting inclusion in a group, category, class |
Under | phr | "Under the Rose" - sub rosa: in secrecy or confidence. |
Under | phr | "Under the Sun" - anywhere in the world. |
Under | phr | "Under the Table" - drunk, intoxicated, blotto. |
Under | phr | "Under the Thumb" - dominated entirely by someone. |
Under | phr | "Under the Weather" - unwell, esp. as the result of too much drinking. |
Under | phr | "Under the Yoke" - in subjection. |
Under | phr | "Under Water" - in and covered by water. |
Under | phr | "Under way" - to make a start; in progress, to make progress. |
Underarm | n | The armpit. |
Underarm | adj | Pertaining to the armpit. |
Underbear | vb | To sustain, suffer, endure. 2. to sustain, support, bear or hold up. 3. to introduce. 4. to trim around the lower part. |
Underbearer | n | One who assists in the carrying of a coffin at a funeral. |
Underbearing | adj | Sustaining, enduring, suffering, supporting, bearing-up. |
Underbearing | adj | Unassuming. |
Underbeing | n | A human,a mortal, as opposed to or compared with a god or a divine being. |
Underbeit | vb | To work |
Underbelly | n | The lower region of the belly. 2. any similar unprotected part; the soft underbelly of Europe. 3. to have a soft underbelly: to have a weakness which can be exploited. |
Underbelly | phr | "Have a Soft Underbelly" - to have a weakness which can be exploited. |
Underbid | vb | Make a lower bid atan auction. 2. an instance of underbidding. |
Underbidder | n | The person who makes the bid next below the highest. 2. one who makes the last bid before the final bid is accepted by the auctioneer. |
Underbind | vb | To bind by a fastening placed beneath; also to bind down, keep down firmly. |
Underbit | n | An earmark to indicate ownership, made on the ear of cattle; fig. to earmark. |
Underbit | n | The projection of the lower jaw of the lower incisors beyond the upper jaw. |
Underbitten | adj | Earmarked in a special manner. 2. earmarked. |
Underboard | adv | Under the table; under-deck. 2. in an underhand or secret manner; clandestinely; secretly, not honestly or openly. |
Underbody | n | The lower part of a woman's dress; bodice. 2. undergarment or undershirt. 3. the underside of an aniamal's body. 4. the part of a ship's hull which is below the water line. 5.under part of the body of a vehicle; frequently attributed to rust protection. |
Underborn | adj | Born with insufficient development. |
Underbright | adj | The strong light which often appears below clouds near the horizon. |
Underbough | n | Lower boughs or branches of a tree. |
Underbreath | n | Subdued or hidden beneath the breath. |
Underbreathe | n | A low subdued tone; a whisper. |
Underbreathing | n | Whispering; speech in a low or hushed tone. |
Underbred | adj | Of inferior breeding or upbringing; wanting in polish or refinement; in manner vulgar. 2. of animals: not pure bred; of inferior strain; not thorough-bred. |
Underbring | adj | To bring in surreptitiously. 2. to bring into subjection or subjugation. |
Underbring-ness | n | The act or action of bringing someone or something in surreptitiously. 2. the action of bringing someone into subjection or subjugation. |
Underbuild | vb | To build under, as a means of strengthening or supporting; to underpin. |
Underbuy | vb | To buy for a price lower than the real value. |
Undercart | n | THe under-carriage of an aircraft. |
Underclad | adj | Insufficiently clad or clothed |
Underclay | n | A layer of clay underlying a coal seam, often containing the roots of of ancient coal-forming plants; also called seat-stone. |
Undercliff | n | A terrace or lower cliff formed by a landslip or debris. |
Underclothed | adj | Insufficiently clothed. |
Underclothing | n | Clothing (underclothes) worn below the upper or outer garment; esp. next to the skin. |
Undercook | vb | Insufficiently done. 2. not cooked to the full. |
Undercraft | n | Hidden or secret craft or cunning. 2. a sly, underhanded trick belonging to inferior crafts. |
Undercreep | vb | To creep in (stealthily). 2. to creep in from underside or beneath. 3. to subvert secretly; to do by craftiness or stealth; to undersell in trade. 4. to evade or escape. |
Undercreepings | n | The act of creeping about stealthily. 2. evasion, escape. 3. subversion, craftiness, stealth. |
Undercroft | n | A crypt of a church; an underground vault. 2. a subterranean chamber, vault or passage. |
Undercumstand | vb | To understand. |
Under-dark | adj | Somewhat dark; darkish. |
Underdeal | n | Discomfiture. |
Under-dealer | n | An underhand or dishonest agent or dealer. |
Under-dealings | n | Underhand or secretive action (usu. dishonest). |
Underdelve | vb | To dig under, undermine. |
Underdelving | n | The act of digging under something; to undermine. |
Underdo | vb | To refrain from all action. 2. to do less than is requisite or necessary. 3. to do or deal with insufficiently or imperfectly. 4. to cook insufficiently. |
Undoer | n | One who does less than is requisite or neccesary. one who deals with matters insufficiently or imperfectedly. |
Underdog | n | The dog that's losing, has lost, or is at a disadvantage in a dogfight. 2. the weaker or worst person. 3. anyone in a position of inferiority. 4. object of sympathy (the antonym of underdog effect is 'bandwagon effect') |
Underdone | vb | Of meat: under-cooked; left slightly raw after cooking. |
Underdrain | vb | To dig a deep ditch for drainage purpose. |
Underdraw | vb | To mark by lines drawn underneath. 2. to represent or depict inadequately or with ineffective detail. 3. to withdraw from a bank account so as to leave a reserve. |
Under-earth | n | Earth, soil beneath the surface. |
Underearth | adj | Subteranean, underground. |
Under-eaten | adj | Eroded, consumed or eaten away from beneath or below. |
Underer | n | An inferior, minion; one of lower rank. |
Underfall | n | A foot-hill slope. |
Underfed | adj | Insufficiently fed or ill-nourished. |
Underfeed | vb | To feed insufficiently; to stint in food. 2. to feed in fuel from below. |
Underfeel | vb | To examine, pry into quietly or secretly. |
Underfeeling | n | Feeling subdued, repressed or hidden. |
Underfelt | n | Felt laid under the carpet to minimise wear and tear. |
Underfiend | n | One of the fiends from under the earth or hell. 2. devilish or evil being; Satan, Lucifer, Old Sooty. |
Underfind | vb | To perceive, understand. |
Underfill | vb | To fill below the required level. |
Underfind | vb | To perceive, understand. |
Underfired | adj | Insufficiently baked, (as pottery or cakes). |
Under-fives | n | Children under five years of age collectively. |
Underfloor | n | Situated or operating under the floor. |
Underflow | n | Undercurrent (also fig.) 2. a flow beneath. |
Underflow | vb | To flow beneath the surface or underground. 2. an undercurrent. |
Underfo | vb | To receive a thing; to have something given to one; to come to have or possess. 2. to receive willingly; to accept. 3. to take in hand; to undertake. 4. to admit into a receptacle; to conceive. 5. to receive a person; to admit to one's presence, society or friendship; to accept. 6. to receive at baptism. 7. to receive by way of hurt or harm; to undergo, suffer. 8. to reprove, rebuke. |
Underfold | vb | To wrap up, hide, conceal. |
Underfong | vb | To seduce, entrap. 2. to surround, enclose. 3. to comprehend, conceive. |
Underfonging | n | The act of seducing, entrapping. 2. surrounding, enclosing. 3. comprehension, conception. |
Underfoot | n | The surface of the ground at the foot of a tree. |
Underfoot | vb | To strengthen the foundations of a wall. |
Underfoot | adv | Beneath the feet; lying under the foot down on the ground, immediately below; in the way. 2. by virtue of one's great power to treat a person's rights with contempt and not to give them proper consideration. |
Underfoot | adj | Interior, abject, low, downtrodden. 2. below the real or rent value. 3. quietly, secretly. 4. of persons: about one's foot (irritatingly) 5. present. |
Underfooting | n | Ground underfoot; esp, with regard to its condition. |
Underframe | n | Substructure, eso. of vehicles |
Underfurrow | vb | To plough in, as manure. |
Undergang | vb | To commence a journey or an undertaking. See "Undergo & "Undergoing" |
Under-get | vb | To catch up with; overtake. |
Undergird | vb | To secure or fasten from the underside. 2. to bind underneath; to gird around the bottom, as a ship. |
Underglow | n | A glow beneath the surface of . |
Undergo | vb | To work under, so as to impair or destroy; to undermine. 2. to deceive, get the better of. 3. to get under; search below. 4. to submit to (to do something.) 5. accept, admit, allow. 6. to be subject to, serve, 7. to go or pass under. 8. to sink below one's sight. 9. to occupy oneself with; to investigate; to get knowledge of. 10. to bear up, endure, sustain; suffer through (pain, danger, suffering) 11. to bear, sustain a burden. 12. to subject or submit oneself to examination, inspection. 13 to go under experiences; to have imposed on or to experience; pass through a change or alteration. 14. to partake or enjoy. 15. to expose oneself to (risk). 16. to take in hand, to undertake. |
Under-god | n | Demi-god, minor deity. |
Undergoing | n | An ordeal, enduration, suffering. 2. an undertaking, experience, burden. |
Undergore | n | Blood shed and clotted under a wound. |
Underground | n | That which is beneath the surface of the ground, as a passage or space. 2. a railway operated in a system of tunnels beneath the ground. 3. a group secretly organised to resist or oppose those in control of a government or country.
4. an avant-garde movement in art, cinema, journalism; etc. generally considered to be in opposition to conventional culture or society and whose works are usually experimental, erotic or radical in style, content or purpose, used with the underground. |
Underground | adj | Situated, done or operated beneath the surface of the ground. 2. clandestinely, done in secret. |
Underground | adv | Beneath or below the surface of the ground or earth, as in: to work underground |
Underground | phr | "Go Underground" - go into hiding. |
Undergrowing | adj | Arising, occurring, growing up from underneath; growing beneath trees. |
Undergrown | adj | Insufficiently developed. 2. not fully grown; undersized. |
Undergrowth | n | A growth of smaller plants, shrubs among larger plants; specifically, a thicket or coppice in or as in a forest. 2. condition of being undergrown. 3. a close growth of hair beneath and finer than the outer growth of a pelt. |
Underhand | adj | Done or acting in a treacherously secret way; unfair, sly. |
Under-handed | adj | Clandestinely carried on; secretly. 2. underhanded or short of staff. |
Under-handedily | adv | Slily, slying; clandestinely |
Under-handed-ness | n | The quality or characteristic of acting in a treacherously secret way; unfairness, slyness. |
Underhead | n | Subordinate official, a person of inferior intellect. |
Under-heaven | n | A place or places beneath heaven, such as Earth. |
Underhew | vb | To undercut in various senses; to undermine. 2. to hew a log of timber so that it appears of greater cubic content than it really is. |
Underhill | n | A low hill, as opposed to 'high-hill: a mountain". |
Underhole | vb | To undermine; to undercut. |
Underhung | n | Projecting from beneath, as a lower jaw; said of persons. dogs etc. with a jaw protruding beyond the upper jaw. 2. underslung; protrusion. |
Underkeep | vb | To keep under or in subjection; to subjugate. |
Underkeeper | n | A subordinate custodian or keeper. |
Underkind | n | A subspecies; an inferior or lower kind. |
Underking | n | A substitute king or regent. |
Underkingdom | n | The realm of a underking or regent. |
Underlaid | vb | To be laid or placed below or beneath. |
Underlay | n | A prop, support, an insertion to make one part or the surface level. |
Underlet | vb | To let at an amount or rental below the true or full value. 2. sub-let. |
Underlid | n | The lower lid of the eye. |
Underlie | vb | To lie below or under. 2. to be the ground or support of: the principle that underlies a scheme. 3.to constitute a first or prior claim or lien over. 4. to be answerable, subject, liable to. |
Under-life | n | Life existing beneath the surface or at a lower level. |
Under-line | n | A line drawn underneath (esp. under written matter) underscore. |
Underline | vb | To give extra weight to (a communication); underscore, emphasize.2. draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to. 3. to mark a line below, as words; to underscore. 4. to influence secretly. [Obs.] 5. to emphasize or call attention to; highlight. |
Underlinen | n | Underclothing. |
Underling | n | A subordinate. |
Underlip | n | The lower lip of of a person, animal or insect. |
Underlive | vb | To live in a manner unworthy of oneself. |
Underlook | n | A covert look or glance. |
Underlooker | n | An inspector of underground workings, as of a mine. |
Underlord | adj | Subservient, subject, submissive. |
Underlout | vb | To be subject to; to submit, to make subject. |
Underly | adj | Subordinate, inferior, low; in a low state of health at a lower level. |
Underlying | adj | Lying under; hence, fig. fundamental, as in underlying thought. |
Underlyingly | adv | In a manner fundamental; unlyingly good and honest. |
Underman | n | An inferior or subordinate. 2. a person with sub-human attributes. |
Undermanned | adj | Short-handed; under-staffed; not furnished with insufficient number of man. |
Under-manning | n | The state or condition of be short in the number of staff or workers provided to carry out the reqired or requisite duties. |
Undermatch | n | One who is no match for another; an inferior rival or opponent. |
Undermatch | vb | To undervalue by comparison. 2. to unite or bestow in marriage below the proper rank or condition. |
Undermatched | adj | Not equal to another; inferior. |
Undermath | n | An undermath of grass. |
Undermeal | n | The time of undern; in later use the early part of afternoon. 2. an afternoon nap or siesta. 3. an afternoon meal. |
Undermeaning | n | "Have you considered the deep undermeaning that there lies. 2. connotation; ramification; esoterica. |
Undermine | vb | To excavate beneath, dig a mine or passage under, 2. to weaken by wearing away at the base. 3. to weaken or impair secretly or by degrees, as in to weaken and undermine the health or reputation of someone. 4. to enfeeble, impair, sap, unnerve. 5. to injure another person's reputation and influence by unfair and secret tactics. 6. to sabotage something. |
Undermining | n | The action or act of weakening or impairing the efforts, plans, projects or physical health of someone. |
Undermost | adj | Holding in or having the lowest place, rank or position. 2. the bottom |
Undern | n | Midday; noon. 2. afternoon; esp. a light meal taken in the afternoon. 3. an afternoon nap or siesta. 3. undern-tide or undertime. |
Undern | adj | Not hidden; secret; open; not concealed; unesoteric. 2. undark, undrear, undire. |
Underneath | adv | On the lower or downward side; on the underside of. 2. under or below an object or a surface; at a lower place or level; directly beneath; as "a house with a good foundation underneath" 3. beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil. |
Underneath | prep | Under; beneath; below. |
Underneath | n | Bed, bedrock, belly, bottom, bottom side, buttocks, downside, fundament, lower side, lowest layer, neath, nether side, nethermost level, sole, substratum, underbelly, undercover, underlayer, underside |
Underness | n | The state or condition of being below a given mark or line. |
Undernim | vb | To make in mind or sense. 2. to understand, comprehend, perceive, feel. 3. to receive by instruction; to learn. 4. to take upon oneself; undertake; to travel; take a journey. 5. to reprove, rebuke; to convict oneself. 6. to catch unawares; or take secretly by surprise. 7. to take away by stealth. 8. to receive into one's hands or charge. |
Undernimmer | n | A supporter or one who takes up something; one who reproves or rebukes. |
Undernimmy | adj | The action of reproving or rebuking; a reproof or rebuke. |
Underorn | vb | Subborn. 2. to procure by underhand or unlawful means. |
Underpin | vb | Support from below with masonry. 2. support; strengthen, prop up with timber, stone, etc. |
Underplay | vb | To act (a role) with great restraint; underact; to hold something in reserve. 2. play a card lower than (a held high card) in the hope of a future advantage. 3. to play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part. |
Underplay | n | The act of underplaying. |
Underput | n | A mistress. |
Underput | vb | To put one thing under another; to place or set beneath. 2. to furnish with something placed under, esp. as a support. 3. to put under the power or control of ; to place in subjection; to subject. 4. to lower the voice. 5. to put or take fraudently. 5. to substitute. |
Underputting | n | The act or action of putting one thing under another; to place under as a support. 2.action of the putting under the control of. 3. substituting. |
Underputter | n | A pimp; a pander. |
Under-read | vb | To stretch below. 2. to trap or defraud by stealth. 3. show a reading lower than the true one. 4. of the reading public reading with less frequency. |
Underreckon | n | To reckon too low; to underestimate. |
Under-ripe | adj | Immature; not quite ripe. |
Under-run | n | An undercurrent. |
Under-run | vb | To run flow, or pass beneath. 2. to overhaul or examine. 3. of a broadcast, item, program etc; that runs for less than the allotted time. 4. to examine, as a rope, by passing it through the hands. |
Under-runner | n | A subterranean stream, river, waterway. |
Under-running | n | The extent to which a project or program runs behind its scheduled completion date. 2. a delay; a fall behind. 3. |
Unders | n | Underwear, underclothing, undies. |
Undersay | vb | To say by way of answer. |
Underscore | n | A line drawn below a word in order to emphasis. 2. to underline for emphasis. |
Underscore | vb | To draw a line below or underline, as to indicate emphasis; to emphasize something. |
Underscoring | n | The act of drawing a line below or beneath a word or words for emphasising. |
Undersea | adj | Existing, carried on, or adapted for use beneath the surface of the sea; as an undersea oil well. |
Underseek | vb | To search into, examine, investigate; seek out. |
Undersell | vb | To sell acoomodity at a lower price than an other. 2. to cut by selling goods or services at a lower price. |
Underselling | n | The practice of selling (or undercutting) cheaper than one's competitors. |
Underset | vb | To support and strengthen by means of something, such as a post or prop, placed beneath; to prop up. 2. to serve as a support. 3. to act upon, furnish, fasten with something placed beneath. 4. to support, sustain or strengthen. 5. to set or place a thing under something else. 6. to place in subject. 7. to beset, besiege, surround. |
Undersetting | n | Something set or built as a support; a pedestal. |
Undersettle | vb | To occupy a house (or part of one)held by another; to sub-tenant; to undersit. |
Undershaped | adj | Insufficiently or imperfectly formed. |
Undershapen | vb | Undersized. 2. embryonic; inchoate; imperfectly formed. |
Under-sheriff | n | A deputy sheriff. |
Undershining | adj | Of an quality inferior in brightness. |
Undershirt | n | Undergarment worn under a shirt, vest. |
Undershot | adj | Propelled by water flowing underneath; said of a water wheel. 2. projecting; having a lower projecting lower jaw or teeth; said esp. of a bulldog. |
Undershoot | n | Of an aircraft landing short of a runway. 2. the act or instance of undershooting. |
Undershoot | vb | To shoot short of below. |
Undershot | adj | Underhung. 2. of a waterwheel, turned by water flowing under it. |
Undershorts | n | Trunks, underpants. |
Undershrub | n | A small plant with a shrubby base. |
Undershut | adj | Imperfectedly shut or closed; said of a door etc. |
Underside | n | The lower or underside or surface. |
Undersight | n | To overlook a small detail; to forget to do something very small; to miss a nominal item. |
Undersitter | n | One who occupies part of another's house or property; a sub-tenant or lodger. |
Undersleeve | n | A sleeve worn beneath another, especially when of contrasting color and shown through slashes or openings. |
Undersong | n | A subordinate or subdued song or strain; esp. one serving as an accompaniment or chorus, burden, refrain, to another; frequently transfig. of natural sound. 2. fig. of a hidden meaning. |
Undersow | vb | Sow (a later-growing crop) on land already seeded with another crop. 2. sow land already seeded (with a crop) with a later growing crop. |
Underspeak | vb | To fall short or come short in speaking of another person or some thing. |
Underspend | vb | Spend less than usual for a specified (monthly) amount. |
Underspread | vb | to spread under or beneath. |
Underspring | n | A subterranean water source. |
Understairs | n | In a space below the staircase. |
Understand | vb | To know and comprehend the nature or meaning of. 2. perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; realize, realise, see. 3. make sense of a language; read, interpret, translate. 4. believe to be the case; experience; infer. 5. be understanding of; sympathize, empathize, empathise. 6. to have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to
comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem. 7. to be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Parliament has passed the bill. 8. to recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain. 9. to mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume. 10. to stand under; to support. 11. to give one to understand, to cause one to know. 12. to make one's self understood, to make one's meaning clear. 13. to have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being. 14. to be informed; to have or receive knowledge. |
Understand | phr | "Come to an Understanding" - make an agreement. |
Understand | phr | "Give somebody to Understand" - lead somebody to believe. |
Understand | phr | "On the Understanding that" - on the agreed condition that. |
Understand | phr | "Understand All is to Forgive All" - when all facts are known and understood it is possible to forgive a person for anything. |
Understand | phr | "Understand Each Other" - know each others views or feelings. |
Understander | n | One whose has knowledge or comprehension of something. 2. a leg or foot. 3. a boot or shore. 4. a apectator standing on the ground or floor; a spectator standing in a theatre or sports ground. 5. a supporter, upholder. |
Understanding | n | Power or ability to understand, intellect, intelligence. 2. capability of judging with knowledge. 3. the faculty of comprehending; reasoning; the intellect, mind, purpose, comprehension, intent. 4. intellectual facility, as manifested in a particular person or persons. 5. signification, meaning, sense. 6. information, knowledge. 7. good, amicable friendly relation between persons. |
Understanding | phr | "Come to an Understanding" - make an agreement. |
Understanding | phr | "On the Understanding that" - on the agreed condition that. |
Understanding | phr | "With the Understanding" - on (the agreed) condition that. |
Understandingly | adv | In a comprehending or intelligent manner. 2. with understanding; also so as to be understood. |
Under-standish-ness | n | An attitude ready and willing to undertake a project, business. |
Understandness | n | State or condition of being understanding. 2. the faculty of understanding. |
Understay | n | Support, foundation, props, as in the props and understay of health. |
Understeer | n | Tendency of a motor vehicle to turn less sharply than was intended. |
Understeer | vb | To have a tendency of a motor vehicle to turn less sharply than was intended. |
Under-steward | n | A senior official serving an important dignatory. |
Understock | vb | To fail to provide sufficient stock or stores. 2. in farming: fail to keep the herds to an adequate number. |
Understood | ppl | Being made known or patent; comprehended; thoroughly known; agreed upon; assured as known or fixed. 2. implied though not expressed. |
Understream | n | An underground river or waterway. |
Under-strength | adj | With a depleted number of troops or players; with less than the usual or required personnel, equipment, or resources. 2. a mixture, compound, or preparation: under the usual, appropriate, or expected potency or degree of concentration. |
Under-strength | adv | Having less than the usual, appropriate, or expected potency or degree of concentration. 2. having less than the usual or required personnel, equipment, or resources. |
Understrew | vb | To spread or strew beneath; fig. to cast under foot, to trod upon. |
Understrike | vb | To strike below; underline, understroke or underscore. |
Undersward | n | Stiff, wiry knot grass forming a rugged area. |
Underswearer | n | One who swears under oath. |
Undersweep | vb | To sweep beneath or under. |
Underswell | n | A swell below the surface of water. 2. a building of support or emotional for a cause or for change. |
Undertake | vb | To trap by raft; entrap. 2. to sieze upon. 3. to chide, rebuke, reprove. 4. to accept, receive willingly. 5. to receive; to have given. 6. to receive into the mind; to be understood. |
Undertaken | ppl | Attended to; made safe; taken in hand; enterprised. |
Undertaker | n | One who acts or assists; a helper, an assister. 2. a rebuker, reprover. 3. one who undertakes a task or enterprise; one who undertakes to carry out work or business for another; a contractor, a collector of taxes. 4. one who takes aup a challenge. 5. one who attempts to colonise land. 6. one who makes a business of carrying out the arrangements for funerals. 7. one who engages in the serious study of a subject or science. 8. one who undertakes the preparation of litery works. 9. a book publisher. 10 a producer of opera or plays; an entrepreneur; manager, impresario. 11. one who acts as security or surety for another. 12. a a baptismal sponsor. |
Undertaking | adj | Ready to undertake an enterprise , task, etc. esp., one involving some danger or risk; enterprising, bold. 3. engaged in literary work. 4. prepared to act as publishers. 5. pledged, bound by promise. |
Undertakingly | adv | Responsibly. |
Undertalked | adj | Down playing of one own capacity and abilities. |
Underthew | vb | To subject, subdue, subjugate. |
Underthing | n | A lower or inferior thing or person. |
Underthings | n | Underclothes; underwear. |
Underthink | vb | To think too little of. 2. to underestimate; to think insufficiently of. 3. to penetrate by thinking; to think deeply. |
Underthrown | adj | Subjected, made subjected; thrown under or down; subjugated. |
Undertide | n | Evening, undertime, not undern. |
Undertimed | adj | Under-exposed (of a photographic negative). |
Undertow | n | A current below the surface of the water; moving in a contrary direction to that of the surface current. |
Undertread | vb | To thread under foot; subdue or subjugate. 2. to reinforce a tread on a rubber tyre. |
Underwater | n | The region or environment below the surface of the water. |
Underwater | adj | Placed, situated, carried on, etc. underwater. 2. in ships situated below the waterline. |
Underwater | adv | Under the water. 2. situated or done under the water. |
Underway | adv | Currently in progress, afoot. |
Underweapon | n | Primitive, simple weapons, such as stones and sling-shots. |
Underwear | n | Unclothing, unclothes. |
Under-weening | n | Underestimation of oneself or something. |
Underweight | adj | Of insufficient weight; not sufficiently heavy. 2. deficient in weight. |
Underweight | n | A condition of being lighter than average for one height and build. |
Underwent | pp | Past particle of "undergo.' |
Underwhelm | vb | To leave unimpressed to arouse little or no interest. 2. to interest less than anticipated. 3. to be dull to a person. |
Underwhelmed | adj | To be of interest less than anticipated. 3. to be dull to a person. |
Underwhelming | ppl | Of less interst than. |
Underwing | n | The hindwing of an insect. 2. the underside of a bird's wing. |
Underwired | adj | Having a thin semi-circular support of wire under of wire inset under each cup. |
Underwit | n | A poor or inferior kind of wit. 2. a person of defective understanding; a half-wit. |
Unwitted | adj | Having not wit or understanding. |
Underwood | n | Small trees or shrubs; coppice-wood or brush-wood growing beneath higher timber or trees. 2. a stump of a tree that regularly throws out new shoots. 3. quantity or stretch of woody undergrowth. |
Underwork | n | Work done at a lower rate. 2. subordinate or inferior work. 3. underhand or secret work. |
Underwork | vb | To work secretly; to take clandestine measures. 2. to work against secretly; to seek to undermine or overthrow. 3. to spend to little work on; to leave unfinished; to impose too little work on. 4. to work for less wages than another. |
Underworking | n | The action of a secret or unapproved nature of underworking of government. |
Underworld | n | The sublunary or terrestrial world. 2. the abode of the deaparted imagined as being under the earth; the nether world. 3. the region below the surface of the earth; subterranean or underlying area. 4. The Antipodes; also the part of the earth beyond the horizon. 5. a sphere or region lying or consider to lie below the ordinary one. Hence also (fig) a lower; or the lowest stratum of society. 6. the world of criminals or of organised crime (usu. with "the"); hence those of this world. 7. the slang of the criminal underworld: "he got the chop" - he was murdered. |
Underwordly | adj | of the underworld. |
Underwrite | vb | Guarantee financial support of; subvent. 2. protect by insurance;
cover, insure. 3. to practice the business of insuring; to take a risk of insurance on a vessel or the like. 4. to write under something else; to subscribe. 5. to subscribe one's name to for insurance, especially for marine insurance. |
Underwriter | n | One underwrites an insurance policy; spec. one who carries on an insurance business; esp. of shipping. 2. one who underwrites company shares. |
Under-written law | n | A long established custom that is difficult to break or disobey. |
Underwrought | vb | Underwork; unworked, undermined. |
Undew | vb | To remove or make ground or grass free of dew. |
Undewy | adj | "Field parched with unusual heat through undewy ground". 2. not having dew; devoid of dew. |
Undight | vb | To divest of clothing, armour etc; to disarray, strip. 2. to unfasten; undo, unclench or open. |
Undight | adj | Not adorned, decked or put in order. |
Undighted | adj | Undressed, stripped. |
Undim | vb | To lighten, brighten up. 2. to clarify. |
Undigged | adj | Not dug up or ploughed. |
Undimmed | vb | Not lessening in light or perception, as in "undimmed eyes." 2. "cloudness moon, undimmed and unarrayed." |
Undinned | adj | Not affected by a specific noise or noise, such as a noisy drummer drowning out a singer's song. |
Undo | vb | Cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect; 2. deprive of certain characteristics, unmake. 3. cause the ruin or downfall of. 4. cause to become loose; untie the knot. 5. remove the outer cover or wrapping of; unwrap. 5. to reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught. "What's done can not be undone." 6. to loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence, to unravel; to solve. 7. to bring to poverty; to impoverish; to ruin, as reputation, morals, hopes, or the like. |
Undoer | n | One who doesn't act or perform. 2. an expounder, interpreter, one who opens or expounds or unfastens. 3. a destroyer, wrecker, ruiner. 4. one who destroys a woman, a seducer, profligate, rake. 5 . one who does less than is requisite or neccesary. one who deals with matters insufficiently or imperfectedly. |
Undoing | n | Ruin or cause of ruin. 2. the process of reversing what has been done.3. the action of opening or unfastening. 3. the omission or neglect of doing; non-performance . |
Undoing | phr | "That Was his Undoing." ruin, downfall. |
Undoingness | n | The act of not caring for or about, not pertaining to; hence duties. 2. the state of inaction or doing little. 3. uncaringness. |
Undone | adj | Brought to decay or ruin; destroyed. 2. unfastened, untied. 3. not done, unaccomplished, unaffected. |
Undoneness | n | Under a sense of undone. |
Undoomed | adj | "Unfit for earth; undoomed for heaven": not condemned or judged. |
Undought | n | A weak puny person or creature; a silly, incapable person. 2. an ineffective, worthless person. |
Undoughty | adj | Weak, puny, silly, incapable, worthless, feeble, contempt. 2. lacking in good qualities, ineffective, bad, vile. |
Undrained | adj | Not drained, wet, marshy, boggy, as in fens or wetlands. |
Undraw | vb | To draw out; withdraw. 2. to draw back (esp. a curtain). 2. to unfasten by pulling. 3. to move back on being pulled. |
Undrawn | adj | Never drawn or pulled along by a plough, vehicle or cart. 2. unmilked. 3. of a lottery not yet drawn. 4. not delineated or depicted. |
Undreaded | adj | Not dreaded or feared. |
Undreadful | adj | Having no dread; unapprehensile. 2. not causing dread, fear, terror, undreading. 3. without dread or fear. |
Undried | adj | Not dried. |
Undriven | adj | Not compelled forcibly by an outside agency. 2. not urged or forced to action or act through moral persuasion. 3. not impelled; not strongly motivated for success; not compulsive, not determined. |
Undrowned | adj | Of pasture, field, town, etc., - not flooded. 2. of persons, animals: not dead by drowning. 3. of sound, music etc : not drowned out by a noiser or louder sound, noise and the like. |
Undug | vb | Not yet dug for, as oil lying deep under the earth surface or in a sea or ocean. |
Undull | adj | Of conversation: not dull or boring, but no necessarily interesting or living. |
Undullness | n | "His admirable sense, and undullness of conversation." - state or quality of being neither dull or boring. |
Undusted | adj | Not sprinkled with dust. 2. not freed from dust; left dusty. |
Undwelt | adj | Not dwelt in, uninhabited, unoccupied, unpopulated. |
Undweltness | n | State of being uninhabited, unoccupied, unlived in, unpopulated. |
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