"underly" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "under",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "under + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From under + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more underly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most underly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "underly (comparative more underly, superlative most underly)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 0 30 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English back-formations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "55 0 33 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "68 0 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ly",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Poor; inferior."
      ],
      "id": "en-underly-en-adj-7uLhhRMy",
      "links": [
        [
          "Poor",
          "poor"
        ],
        [
          "inferior",
          "inferior"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal) Poor; inferior."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʌndə(ɹ)li/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "underly"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "under",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "under + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From under + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more underly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most underly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "underly (comparative more underly, superlative most underly)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1672, Nehemiah Grew, The anatomy of vegetables begun",
          "text": "The Seed-Branch […] is presently divided into two main Branches, and those two into other less; whereof some underly, others aloft, run along the Coat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "At a lower level."
      ],
      "id": "en-underly-en-adv-OvLP1mpV",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, obsolete) At a lower level."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, William C. Heffernan, John Kleinig, From Social Justice to Criminal Justice, page 109",
          "text": "In this case, we are not in a position—at least from the perspective of the rules themselves and the values that lie behind them—to say that they are overly or underly inclusive.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Jass Richards, Licence to Do That",
          "text": "Overly madeup and underly dressed young women were dancing in a cluster on the floor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 July 3, Victoria Coren Mitchell, The Observer",
          "text": "Better to struggle claustrophobically from the grasp of an overly adoring parent than to fall serially in love with emotionally cruel or distant partners, which is what everyone with underly adoring parents always does.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In an inferior or inadequate manner; insufficiently (chiefly in opposition to overly)."
      ],
      "id": "en-underly-en-adv-vKu1fkBn",
      "links": [
        [
          "inadequate",
          "inadequate"
        ],
        [
          "insufficiently",
          "insufficiently"
        ],
        [
          "overly",
          "overly#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly colloquial) In an inferior or inadequate manner; insufficiently (chiefly in opposition to overly)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʌndə(ɹ)li/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "underly"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "underlying"
      },
      "expansion": "Back-formation from underlying",
      "name": "back-form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from underlying.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "underlies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underlying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underlay",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underlain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "underlies",
        "2": "underlying",
        "3": "underlay",
        "4": "underlain"
      },
      "expansion": "underly (third-person singular simple present underlies, present participle underlying, simple past underlay, past participle underlain)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "underlie"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise",
          "text": "I asked him what principles he felt should underly the care provided during such a voyage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nonstandard spelling of underlie."
      ],
      "id": "en-underly-en-verb-icpnCqM5",
      "links": [
        [
          "underlie",
          "underlie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "underlied"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈlaɪ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "underly"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English adverbs",
    "English back-formations",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ly",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "under",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "under + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From under + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more underly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most underly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "underly (comparative more underly, superlative most underly)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dialectal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Poor; inferior."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Poor",
          "poor"
        ],
        [
          "inferior",
          "inferior"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal) Poor; inferior."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʌndə(ɹ)li/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "underly"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English adverbs",
    "English back-formations",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ly",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "under",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "under + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From under + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more underly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most underly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "underly (comparative more underly, superlative most underly)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1672, Nehemiah Grew, The anatomy of vegetables begun",
          "text": "The Seed-Branch […] is presently divided into two main Branches, and those two into other less; whereof some underly, others aloft, run along the Coat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "At a lower level."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare, obsolete) At a lower level."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, William C. Heffernan, John Kleinig, From Social Justice to Criminal Justice, page 109",
          "text": "In this case, we are not in a position—at least from the perspective of the rules themselves and the values that lie behind them—to say that they are overly or underly inclusive.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Jass Richards, Licence to Do That",
          "text": "Overly madeup and underly dressed young women were dancing in a cluster on the floor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 July 3, Victoria Coren Mitchell, The Observer",
          "text": "Better to struggle claustrophobically from the grasp of an overly adoring parent than to fall serially in love with emotionally cruel or distant partners, which is what everyone with underly adoring parents always does.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In an inferior or inadequate manner; insufficiently (chiefly in opposition to overly)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inadequate",
          "inadequate"
        ],
        [
          "insufficiently",
          "insufficiently"
        ],
        [
          "overly",
          "overly#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly colloquial) In an inferior or inadequate manner; insufficiently (chiefly in opposition to overly)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʌndə(ɹ)li/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "underly"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English back-formations",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "underlying"
      },
      "expansion": "Back-formation from underlying",
      "name": "back-form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from underlying.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "underlies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underlying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underlay",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underlain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "underlies",
        "2": "underlying",
        "3": "underlay",
        "4": "underlain"
      },
      "expansion": "underly (third-person singular simple present underlies, present participle underlying, simple past underlay, past participle underlain)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "underlied"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "underlie"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English nonstandard forms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise",
          "text": "I asked him what principles he felt should underly the care provided during such a voyage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Nonstandard spelling of underlie."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "underlie",
          "underlie#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈlaɪ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "underly"
}