underattended
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]underattended (comparative more underattended, superlative most underattended)
- Attended by too few people.
- 1986 December, Melik Kaylan, “Downtown: It's Like You Know...”, in Spy, page 53:
- At 4D, husky boys Roman Ricardo, Ford Croell, Doug E. Fresh, Vito Bruno and Russel Buckingham attempt to make the underattended club seem crowded.
- 1999, The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press:
- While classrooms in big cities are often overcrowded, underattended rural schools have almost as many teachers as students - a situation one doesn't see even in elite preparatory schools.
- 2015, J.C. Hallman, B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal, →ISBN, page 21:
- Baker had appeared recently at a Canadian book festival, an event that the blogger claimed was woefully underattended, like Salter's reading.
- Given too little attention.
- 2002, Paul Allatson, Latino Dreams: Transcultural Traffic and the U.S. National Imaginary, →ISBN:
- The selection includes novels by authors who have received little academic attention — Abraham Rodriguez, Achy Obejas, and Benjamin Alire Saenz — along with underattended texts from more renowned writers — Rosario Ferre, Coco Fusco, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña.
- 2015, Peter DeLeon, Thinking About Political Corruption, →ISBN:
- This book has been a more difficult book to write than I had anticipated. I now have a very intimate appreciation of why the analysis of political corruption is an underattended subject.
- 2015, Robert K. Yin, Qualitative Research from Start to Finish, →ISBN:
- One is to put more energy into collecting data from the unit at the underattended data collection level, so that the emerging findings more closely reflect the main topic.
Verb
[edit]underattended
- simple past and past participle of underattend