Underword

Quick meaning: Underword is a noun meaning A word placed below another, either literally or metaphorically: a subtext; an inadequate or subordinate term or description; a secret word or phrase; a watchword.

Meaning

A word placed below another, either literally or metaphorically: a subtext; an inadequate or subordinate term or description; a secret word or phrase; a watchword.

Example Sentences

Beautiful is an underword to describe you, [...]

While to that voice amid those memories heard Answered her underword, No wonder if the Eternal Presence then Seemed mute no more to men, [...]

They are invisible fosterers in the sense that neither is named within the text. Each speaks an underword - italicised to indicate its fragmentary, translated nature - [...]

Such underwords of nature thrill With wonder and with mystery; The wind has blown them from the hill, The waves have whispered to the sea; And nature all is manifold Akin with lore we cannot tell, [...]

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include underthought, undersection, subterrain, submeaning, undernote, subterposition.

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