Understimulate

Origin

- + under + stimulate

Full definition of understimulate

Verb

1. (transitive) To stimulate too little or infrequently; to provide with insufficient stimulation.
• 1992, Robert Paul Liberman, Handbook of psychiatric rehabilitation, Thus, as Wing and Brown (1970) observed, an understimulating "back ward" may lead to withdrawal and a lack of external social stimulation and support.

Antonyms

• overstimulate