Underdose

Quick meaning: Underdose is a noun meaning An inadequate dose (of a medication).

Meaning

An inadequate dose (of a medication).

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) An inadequate amount of something.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To administer an inadequate dose (to someone or to oneself).
3. (transitive) To administer an inadequate dose of (a medication).
4. (figuratively, intransitive) To use a scant or inadequate amount of an ingredient or product.

Example Sentences

“Seems as though sometimes I get an overdose of feeling, and an underdose of sense.”

An intern underdosed her heparin (blood thinner), and she suffered a large blood clot in a lung.

It seems the kid suffers from an underdose of mother love, so he kills pretty girls—exactly the problem of Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.”

2016, Kelly Close, letter to the editor, The New York Times, 29 February, 2016, It is true that insulin costs are high; as a result some patients may underdose. We need better reimbursement to address that.

Word Forms

• underdoses
• under-dose
• underdosing
• underdosed

Antonyms for underdose

Common opposites include overdose.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include underdosage, undermedication, underprescription, underdoer, underloading, underorder.

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