• Underween

    Origin

    From - + ween.

    Full definition of underween

    Verb

    1. (transitive) To undervalue.
      • 1977, Cornell University, Epoch: Volumes 27-28:You'd better underween.
      • 1995, James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, Maxwell on heat and statistical mechanics: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.
      • 2008, Chet Raymo, When God is gone everything is holy:Is it possible to be underweening? Too unassuming in one's opinions?

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