"underspoken" meaning in English

See underspoken in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more underspoken [comparative], most underspoken [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} underspoken (comparative more underspoken, superlative most underspoken)
  1. Characterized by understatement; understated.
    Sense id: en-underspoken-en-adj-vZUUwVsA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 89 11

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} underspoken
  1. past participle of underspeak Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: underspeak
    Sense id: en-underspoken-en-verb-dVBwi73e
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "past participle of underspeak"
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          "underspeak#English"
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      "form": "more underspoken",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most underspoken",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos, page 16:",
          "text": "The Anglo-Saxon Charles Darwin, underspoken and gentlemanly, impersonal and asexual and blankly observant in his writings, was a hero in teeming, passionate, polyglot Guayaquil because he was the inspiration for a tourist boom.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Peter Carnahan, Pharnabazus Sits on the Ground with the Spartan Captains, page 77:",
          "text": "But trust him, I don't think I ever did. Even in his new, earnest, underspoken self.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Elliott H. Lieb, Studies in Mathematical Physics, page 3:",
          "text": "In a very underspoken sense one may view the achievements of Copernicus, Kepler, Brahe - the giants on whose shoulders Newton stood — and Newton as being the unfolding and solution of this very problem.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Margaret Atwood, The Testaments, →ISBN, page 345:",
          "text": "\"We are simply doing our service for Gilead,\" she said in her underspoken robot Aunt's way, and the Angel said, \"Praise be.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characterized by understatement; understated."
      ],
      "id": "en-underspoken-en-adj-vZUUwVsA",
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          "understatement"
        ],
        [
          "understated",
          "understated"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "underspoken"
}
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    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 1 entry"
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      "form": "more underspoken",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most underspoken",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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        {
          "ref": "1999, Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos, page 16:",
          "text": "The Anglo-Saxon Charles Darwin, underspoken and gentlemanly, impersonal and asexual and blankly observant in his writings, was a hero in teeming, passionate, polyglot Guayaquil because he was the inspiration for a tourist boom.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Peter Carnahan, Pharnabazus Sits on the Ground with the Spartan Captains, page 77:",
          "text": "But trust him, I don't think I ever did. Even in his new, earnest, underspoken self.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Elliott H. Lieb, Studies in Mathematical Physics, page 3:",
          "text": "In a very underspoken sense one may view the achievements of Copernicus, Kepler, Brahe - the giants on whose shoulders Newton stood — and Newton as being the unfolding and solution of this very problem.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Margaret Atwood, The Testaments, →ISBN, page 345:",
          "text": "\"We are simply doing our service for Gilead,\" she said in her underspoken robot Aunt's way, and the Angel said, \"Praise be.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characterized by understatement; understated."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "understatement",
          "understatement"
        ],
        [
          "understated",
          "understated"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "underspoken"
}

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