Underattend
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Underattend is a verb meaning To pay too little attention to.
Meaning
To pay too little attention to.
Example Sentences
A few use more drugs than we wish to know; most are wonderful parents but some underattend to their children well beyond neglect.
Although temporal and spatial thinking are never really alternative to each other, I've consistently tried in Touching Feeling to push back against an occupational tendency to underattend to the rich dimension of space.
Word Forms
- underattends
- underattending
- underattended
- under-attend
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include inattend, underlook, underprioritize, ignore, underthink, undersee.
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