Underspoken
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Underspoken is a verb meaning past participle of underspeak.
Meaning
past participle of underspeak.
More Meanings
- Characterized by understatement; understated.
Example Sentences
But trust him, I don't think I ever did. Even in his new, earnest, underspoken self.
"We are simply doing our service for Gilead," she said in her underspoken robot Aunt's way, and the Angel said, "Praise be."
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.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include understated, unoutspoken, muted, undercharacterised, unshouted, quiet.
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