underwhelm
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From under- + whelm: a humorous coinage by novel negation of overwhelm[1] first recorded in the 1950's.[2]
Verb
[edit]underwhelm (third-person singular simple present underwhelms, present participle underwhelming, simple past and past participle underwhelmed)
Antonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]fail to impress
Finnish: olla mitäänsanomaton
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “underwhelm”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ “underwhelm”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.