English

Verb

underween ‎(third-person singular simple present underweens, present participle underweening, simple past and past participle underweened)

1. (transitive) 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

• underweening