Underassured
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Underassured is an adjective meaning Insufficiently assured.
Meaning
Insufficiently assured.
Example Sentences
Archer might be overweight and underassured, but he could kiss like a drunken sailor.
The overassured manager may not seek to appreciate all the risks entailed in an ambitious decision. But even when the risks are appreciated, the underassured manager may equally jeopardize the organization by failing to display the bias for action that is also essential.
Agents, according to a critical account written in the 1930s, had 'convinced themselves, by long years of self-persuasion, that it is little short of immoral for a man to be underassured', and they tended to view lapses not as a sign of a real inability to pay, but as an indicator of the financial recidivism of the masses.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include underconfident, uncovered, nonconfident, poor, undercapitaled, undermanned.
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