Wise vs Underwise - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between wise and underwise

is that wise is showing good judgement or the benefit of experience while underwise is lacking adequate or sufficient wisdom; insufficiently wise.

As verbs the difference between wise and underwise

is that wise is to become wise while underwise is to make, render, or prove to be underwise.

As nouns the difference between wise and underwise

is that wise is way, manner, method while underwise is underside.

As an acronym WISE

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As an adverb underwise is

on or to the bottom or underside of; beneath; underneath.

wise

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wis, wys, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch wijs, German weise, Swedish vis. Compare wit.

Adjective

(er)

Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.

Storing extra food for the winter was a wise decision.

They were considered the wise old men of the administration.

"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise , to seem foolish" - Aeschylus

(colloquial) Disrespectful.

Don't get wise with me!

Usage notes

* Objects: person, decision, advice, counsel, saying, etc.

Antonyms

* unwise * foolish

Derived terms

* crack wise * wisdom * wiseacre * wise apple * wiseass * wisecrack * wise guy * wise-hearted * wiseling * wiselike * wiseness * wizen * wizard * word to the wise

Verb

(wis)

To become wise.

(ergative, slang) Usually with "up", to inform or learn.

Mo wised him up about his situation.

''After Mo had a word with him, he wised up.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) Way, manner, method.

* 1850 , The Burden of Nineveh , lines 2-5

... the prize

Dead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes, —

Her Art for ever in fresh wise

From hour to hour rejoicing me.

* 1866 , , A Ballad of Life , lines 28-30

A riven hood was pulled across his eyes;

The token of him being upon this wise

Made for a sign of Lust.

* 1926 , J. S. Fletcher, Sea Fog , page 308

And within a few minutes the rest of us were on our way too, judiciously instructed by Parkapple and the Brighton official, and disposed of in two taxi-cabs, the drivers of which were ordered to convey us to Rottingdean in such wise that each set his load of humanity at different parts of the village and at the same time that the bus was due to arrive at the hotel.

Derived terms

* -wise

Etymology 3

From (etyl) .

Verb

(dialectal) to instruct

(dialectal) to advise; induce

(dialectal) to show the way, guide

(dialectal) to direct the course of, pilot

(dialectal) to cause to turn

Statistics

* 1000 English basic words

underwise

English

Etymology 1

From .

Adverb

(en adverb)

On or to the bottom or underside of; beneath; underneath.

* 1822 , Louis Eustache Ude, The French cook :

[...] next stuff the skin of the leg of mutton, sew it underwise , wrap the whole in a cloth, and braize it [...]

* 1858 , United States Congress, Congressional edition :

In forming double volute springs, plates of sheet steel are employed. These are heated and are then introduced underwise , one at a time, beneath the mandrel B upon the support I, until the central part of the plate is beneath the mandrel.

Below; hereafter.

* 1866 , Charles Dickens, All the year round :

Then as how to continue the quotations self-praise, and description of matters as hardly never occured(SIC) or transpirated, follows underwise : [...]

* 1924 , League of Nations, Official journal :

Unless underwise provided by this law, decisions shall be given by a majority of votes of the members present, other than the President.

* 1962 , Columbia University. Legislative Drafting Research Fund, United States, Constitutions of the United States, national and State :

All other grants, gifts and devises, that have been, or may hereafter be, made to this state and not underwise appropriated by the terms of the grant, gift, or devise the interest arising from all the funds mentioned in the [...]

Noun

(en noun)

Underside.

* 1905 , Cornelius McLeod Percy, Frank Percy, George H. Winstanley, The mechanical equipment of collieries :

[...] but a certain amount of clearance is allowed in all the clips to enable the pipes to expand and contract freely according to their temperature, or to accommodate themselves to any underwise movement.

* 1909 , Cassier's magazine:

The same firm, in a suction dredger built specially for the Rangoon port improvements, fit very powerful water jets on the underwise of the suction nozzle to disturb the hard, sandy bottom.

Etymology 2

From .

Adjective

(en adjective)

Lacking adequate or sufficient wisdom; insufficiently wise.

* 1847 , The herald of truth:

Let us, therefore, be neither overwise nor underwise , neither hasty nor tardy, but liberal, tolerant, and full of hope.

* 1877 , Washington Gladden, The Christian way: whither it leads and how to go on :

Some underwise people, ministers even affect to despise the knowledge that comes through books, and pretend to draw all their inspirations from the incidents and associations of common life; [...]

* 1921 , American printer and lithographer:

These few illustrative examples will suggest that if the proofreader's assistant is or remains "underwise " or inattentive in the matter of adapted pauses in reading manuscript, and fails to clearly sound sibilants and coalescents, some one will "lose out" on proof nunciat ion.

* 2006 , Tim Beaglehole, A life of J.C. Beaglehole: New Zealand scholar :

I know it's overclever and underwise in places.

Verb

(underwis)

To make, render, or prove to be underwise.

* 1970 , Portugal. Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Portugal replies in the United Nations :

This in turn would underwise and render nugatory the sovereign equality of [...]

* 1986 , United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Current Problems of Economic Integration :

Institutional defects may, in certain cases, further paralyse an integration movement and underwise the strength of the regional organization.