underboosted

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

underboosted

  1. simple past and past participle of underboost

Adjective[edit]

underboosted (comparative more underboosted, superlative most underboosted)

  1. Suffering from underboost.
    • 1961, Approach - Volume 6, Issue 8, page 39:
      Aside from the intake cycle condition described above and when rapidly decelerating the engine, a helicopter power plant can not be seriously underboosted.
  2. Underpowered.
    • 1997, Road & Track - Volume 49, page 96:
      The Millenia's steering feels precise and is the most naturally weighted of the three (the Audi's felt overboosted just off center; the Volvo's, underboosted).
    • 2013, Daisy Waugh, I Don't Know Why She Bothers, →ISBN:
      They will have been driven in an overstuffed, underboosted car, to a party somewhere, sometime.
  3. Insufficiently promoted.
    • 1967, Space/aeronautics - Volume 48, page 20:
      Our symbol of success is Saturn 5; the USSR is now the underboosted one.
    • 1990, Richard Curtis, Beyond the bestseller, →ISBN:
      In the publishing industry, however, most of the product goes un- or underadvertised, and even books that publishing people consider to be heavily pushed are ridiculously underboosted by the standards of most other business enterprises.