"underwhelm" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "overawe"
    },
    {
      "word": "overwhelm"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "under",
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      "expansion": "under- + whelm",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "overwhelm"
      },
      "expansion": "overwhelm",
      "name": "m"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "under- + whelm: a humorous coinage by novel negation of overwhelm first recorded in the 1950's.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "underwhelms",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwhelming",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwhelmed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwhelmed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "underwhelm (third-person singular simple present underwhelms, present participle underwhelming, simple past and past participle underwhelmed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 August 5, Shira Ovide, “YouTube Is Underwhelming”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "The fact that I even mentioned YouTube in the same paragraph as the middling TV company ViacomCBS and Twitter … well, that says something about how YouTube has underwhelmed for some time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "impress",
          "impress"
        ],
        [
          "perform",
          "perform"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "anticlimax"
        },
        {
          "word": "damp squib"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "teleurstellen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "décevoir"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "laisser sur sa faim"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "enttäuschen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "tags": [
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "unterwältigen"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "alulmúlja a várakozásait"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "csalódást kelt/okoz"
        },
        {
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "deceptar"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "rozczarować"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "desapontar"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "dezamăgi"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "decepționa"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "deziluziona"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "razočarovátʹ",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "разочарова́ть"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "razočaróvyvatʹ",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "разочаро́вывать"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "fail to impress",
          "word": "decepcionar"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "underwhelm"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "overawe"
    },
    {
      "word": "overwhelm"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "under",
        "3": "whelm"
      },
      "expansion": "under- + whelm",
      "name": "prefix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "overwhelm"
      },
      "expansion": "overwhelm",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "under- + whelm: a humorous coinage by novel negation of overwhelm first recorded in the 1950's.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "underwhelms",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwhelming",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwhelmed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "underwhelmed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "underwhelm (third-person singular simple present underwhelms, present participle underwhelming, simple past and past participle underwhelmed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "anticlimax"
    },
    {
      "word": "damp squib"
    }
  ],
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        "English lemmas",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 August 5, Shira Ovide, “YouTube Is Underwhelming”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "The fact that I even mentioned YouTube in the same paragraph as the middling TV company ViacomCBS and Twitter … well, that says something about how YouTube has underwhelmed for some time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fail to impress; to perform disappointingly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "impress",
          "impress"
        ],
        [
          "perform",
          "perform"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "teleurstellen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "décevoir"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "laisser sur sa faim"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "enttäuschen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "unterwältigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "alulmúlja a várakozásait"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "csalódást kelt/okoz"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "deceptar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "rozczarować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "desapontar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "dezamăgi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "decepționa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "deziluziona"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razočarovátʹ",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "разочарова́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razočaróvyvatʹ",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "разочаро́вывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fail to impress",
      "word": "decepcionar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "underwhelm"
}

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