Underseen vs Undersees - What's the difference?
underseen | undersees |
Too little seen.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 8, author=Holland Cotter, title=Quirks and Attitude to Burn, work=New York Times
, 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. }} (undersee)
To see or look under or below; see below the surface of.
*1938 , Saturday review of literature: Volume 18:
To look intently into; examine; inspect.
*1978 , Karl D. Jackson, Lucian W. Pye, Political power and communications in Indonesia :
To neglect; fail to see properly or adequately; turn a blind eye to; ignore.
*2002 , Nicholas Weinstock, As Long As She Needs Me :
*2010 , Wendelin Van Draanen, Stephen Gilpin, The Power Potion :
*2011 , Georgia O'Keeffe, Sarah Greenough, My Faraway One :
As an adjective underseen
is too little seen.As a verb undersees is
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- Newfoundland guides, trying to point out to a fisherman a salmon in the water, may say: "You have to undersee' the shine." Ken has a remarkable ability to "' undersee the shine." He is not deceived by surfaces.
- At these less visible but still crucial levels, a substantial military presence would appear to have strengthened the capacity of the government to implement policy, by toughening the chain of command and by enabling officers to play watchdog roles "underseeing " civilian ministers.
- But he didn't read books; he only oversaw, or undersaw , the niggling details of their mass production.
- Damien took an alternate route to oversee (or, more accurately, undersee ) the execution of his dirty work.
- Perhaps I was too fond of him at one time—perhaps too fond still—to be entirely fair to his work—Perhaps “oversaw” it formerly—when he potentially lived in me—& “undersee ” it now when I am impatient with all tricks [...]