Dictionary

underattended en · ADJ · etymology 1

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English attended English underattended From under- + attended.

Meanings

1. Attended by too few people.
   • While classrooms in big cities are often overcrowded, underattended rural schools have almost as many teachers as students - a situation one doesn't see even in elite preparatory schools. 1999, The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press:
   • Baker had appeared recently at a Canadian book festival, an event that the blogger claimed was woefully underattended, like Salter's reading. 2015, J.C. Hallman, B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal, →ISBN, page 21:
   • At 4D, husky boys Roman Ricardo, Ford Croell, Doug E. Fresh, Vito Bruno and Russel Buckingham attempt to make the underattended club seem crowded. 1986 December, Melik Kaylan, “Downtown: It's Like You Know...”, in Spy, page 53:
2. Given too little attention.
   • One is to put more energy into collecting data from the unit at the underattended data collection level, so that the emerging findings more closely reflect the main topic. 2015, Robert K. Yin, Qualitative Research from Start to Finish, →ISBN:
   • This book has been a more difficult book to write than I had anticipated. I now have a very intimate appreciation of why the analysis of political corruption is an underattended subject. 2015, Peter DeLeon, Thinking About Political Corruption, →ISBN:
   • The selection includes novels by authors who have received little academic attention — Abraham Rodriguez, Achy Obejas, and Benjamin Alire Saenz — along with underattended texts from more renowned writers — Rosario Ferre, Coco Fusco, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. 2002, Paul Allatson, Latino Dreams: Transcultural Traffic and the U.S. National Imaginary, →ISBN:

Forms

underattended en · VERB · etymology 2

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Etymology

From underattend + -ed.

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of underattend
   form of underattend