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Underseen vs Underween - What's the difference?

underseen | underween |

As an adjective underseen

is too little seen.

As a verb underween is

to undervalue.

underseen

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Too little seen.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 8, author=Holland Cotter, title=Quirks and Attitude to Burn, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=New York galleries are in the habit of saving their best — their newest, boldest, oddest — for last, for the annual blitz of end-of-season group shows that give exposure to underseen artists and freelance gigs to promising curators, while the commercial heat is down. }}

    underween

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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?

    Derived terms

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